Evaluated the effect of using underlining cues in prose materials for 24 elderly volunteers with low or high Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale vocabulary subtest scores. Results showed underlining cues were not successful in reducing vocabulary-related differences in performance. (BH)

Seventy-three sixth graders were asked to detect contradictions within the assigned paragraph and information contrary to general knowledge. While prior studies have found ability to detect errors related to reading ability, the results of this study suggest that individual variations in error detection are more complex. Results are discussed.…

A five-year retest of 69 pairs of reading disabled children (7-12 years old) and matched controls revealed the persistent nature of reading disability. Despite substantial differences in reading performance and symbol processing speed, both groups exhibited similar rates of change in reading performance. (CL)

Based on findings of a study analyzing microcomputer literature using the Flesch procedures, the author recommends that readability formulas not be used in assessing such instructional materials. (SK)

A significant difference was found between 45 learning disabled Ss and 45 normal Ss (grades two-four) in discriminating between orthographically legitimate and orthographically illegitimate pairs of letter patterns. The ability to discriminate correlated with performance of the reading section of the Wide Range Achievement Test. (Author/CL)

Freire's cogitation on Information Technology (IT), resources for education have been known since the decade of the 50s. And now, within the current context, this analysis outlines the literacy problem as an issue of gnosis and anthropology while existing in a virtual dimension. Based on research/experiences that also were carried out in Brazil,…

The data presented does not support any concurrent appropriateness for the standardized measures in a graduate program employing the grade point average as the major criterion for granting degrees. (Author)

The specific purpose of this study was to compare the long-term predictive power of intelligence, readiness, achievement, and visual perception for the future reading performance of a sample of inner-city kindergarten and first-grade children. (Author)

This study was designed to determine if anxiety in intermediate grade school children would influence their perceptual reading pattern of word phrases. Higher anxiety scores significantly limited student perceptions among 3-, 4-, and 5-word length phrases. (Author)

Readability measurement has been a problem to the teacher for a long time. A solution to this problem may have finally been found in a recent study by John R. Bormuth entitled, "Development of Readability Analyses." (Washington: U.S. Office of Education, Bureau of Research, 1969). (MR)

The latest of the national surveys of educational progress has produced some provacative findings about the reading ability of young Americans. (Editor)

Described are research and hypotheses concerning hyperlexic children - those who can read words at a level significantly above their level of general verbal and academic functioning. (Author)

Thirty randomly selected, low vision patients were evaluated on their performance in viewing a standard near-point chart and selected materials without any vision aids, then with their customary low vision aid handheld, and finally, with their customary low vision aid viewed in an optiscope enlarger. (GW)