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Wolverton, Gary S. – 1979
To identify when visual information is acquired during reading, an experiment was designed in which rapid display changes were made contingent upon the state of the eye. This was accomplished by programing a computer to detect within a few milliseconds whether the eye is in a saccade or fixation. By then replacing a line of text with some other…
Descriptors: College Students, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements, Higher Education
Download full textMikulecky, Larry; Diehl, William – 1979
After reiterating the findings of an earlier examination of job literacy, this paper discusses the results of a job literacy survey involving interviews with 107 individuals representing 100 occupations ranging from short-order cooks and assembly-line workers to lawyers and corporation vice-presidents. Other aspects of the research findings…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Functional Reading, Job Skills, Readability Formulas
Kane, Janet H. – 1978
Models of reading have been proposed to guide researchers and educators in their theoretical research and instructional planning. The models specify important properties of the material to be read and processes the learner uses while reading. Two separate models of reading by K.S. Goodman and D. Rumelhart are similar in that they describe reading…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Models, Reading, Reading Comprehension
Gilroy, Lorraine – 1979
Ten randomly picked children of prekindergarten age participated in a study that focused on whether feature analysis can be used as an aid in the recognition of the alphabet. The five children in the control group were introduced to the letters as a whole, while the five children in the experimental group were introduced to the whole letters but…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes, Letters (Alphabet), Masters Theses
SAMUELS, S. JAY – 1968
THE HYPOTHESIS THAT WHEN ASSOCIATED PAIRS OF WORDS ARE PRESENTED, SPEED OF RECOGNITION WILL BE FASTER THAN WHEN NONASSOCIATED WORD PAIRS ARE PRESENTED OR WHEN A TARGET WORD IS PRESENTED BY ITSELF WAS TESTED. TWENTY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, INITIALLY SCREENED FOR VISION, WERE ASSIGNED RANDOMLY TO ROWS OF A 5 X 5 REPEATED-MEASURES LATIN SQUARE DESIGN.…
Descriptors: College Students, Paired Associate Learning, Reading Rate, Reading Research
Indiana Univ., Bloomington. ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading. – 1968
THE SECOND CUMULATIVE EDITION OF THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER/CLEARINGHOUSE ON THE RETRIEVAL OF INFORMATION AND EVALUATION IN READING (ERIC/CRIER) INFORMATIONAL PUBLICATIONS INCLUDES THREE NEWSLETTERS AND THREE INFORMATION BRIEFS. THE NEWSLETTERS PRESENT DISCUSSIONS OF THE ERIC/CRIER DOCUMENT PROCESSING FOR RESEARCH IN EDUCATION,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Classification, Information Dissemination, Information Processing
Askov, Eunice N. – 1969
The development of the Primary Pupil Reading Attitude Inventory to measure recreational reading attitudes is described. Twenty second and third graders were interviewed to determine favorite after school and weekend activities. The nine most frequently named activities and three reading activities were then depicted by an artist in separate…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Leisure Time, Primary Education, Reading Research
Laffey, James L., Comp. – 1968
Three bibliographies, each of which is divided into two parts, provide information on reading in the content areas of mathematics, science, and social studies. The first part contains abstracts of documents selected from six ERIC/CRIER basic references. The second part lists annotated materials from a seventh reference in order to provide some…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Content Area Reading, Mathematics, Reading Research
Plessas, Gus P., Comp. – 1965
This annotated bibliography is composed of 39 citations ranging in date from 1924 to 1964. Its divisions include Standard References, Journals and Periodicals, and Bibliographies and Summaries. Titles grouped under Standard References are primary or general sources. Those listed under Journals and Periodicals are regular or annual summaries; those…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Information Sources, Periodicals
Heil, Helen F. – 1976
One hundred fifty children in first, second, and third grade participated in a study of the relationships between written language variables in narrative and expository writing and reading comprehension. The seven written language variables investigated included mean length of T-unit and the ratios of various sentence-combining transformations to…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Language Acquisition, Narration, Primary Education
Mack, Faite Royjier-Poncefonte – 1976
The first section of this paper reports the results of numerous literacy studies in which adults were tested on a variety of tasks, including filling out forms, answering questions about newspaper classified advertisements, and dealing with certain facets of consumer economics. The percentage of adults in the United States reported to be literate…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Consumer Economics, Functional Literacy
Glynn, Shawn M.; Di Vesta, Francis J. – 1978
How well items of information which comprise a text are learned may depend upon the semantic and syntactic relationships (ideational bonds) which exist among those items. To determine if the ability of learners to recall text information is influenced by the location of the information within the text and by syntactic contrasts among informational…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Reading Research
Augstein, E. Sheila; Thomas, Laurie F. – 1975
An action research study that offered students in sixth form, college of education, and university a framework and context for exploring and reviewing their reading-for-learning competencies led to significant improvement on a battery of measures. This paper draws attention to and makes explicit the psychosocial events within the action research…
Descriptors: Action Research, Higher Education, Participation, Reading Improvement
Bunde, Gary R. – 1975
A statistical comparison was made between two automated devices which were used to count data points (words, sentences, and syllables) needed in the Flesch Reading Ease Score to determine the reading grade level of written material. Determination of grade level of all Rate Training Manuals and Non-Resident Career Courses had been requested by the…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Educational Media, Educational Programs, Guides
Stephens, Jacquelyn W. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of prescribed literature on the reader's self-reliance. The subjects were 36 sixth grade children from the ages of eleven to thirteen. Pretest and posttest measures of self-reliance were made by the California Test of Personality and the Teacher Rating Scale. The subjects were randomly…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Bibliotherapy, Elementary Education, Emotional Adjustment
