Recommends instruction in rapid reading fo high school and college students and asserts that flexibility of speed and reasoning provide the foundation for effective rapid reading. Describes the components of rapid reading as orientation, selection, clarification, arrangement, review, and study. (RW)

Reports on changes initiated to assist college students with less than adequate reading skills. (AEA)

Describes a study that compared the reading efficiency at three different reading rates of five rapid readers and two control groups. Reports that the rapid readers demonstrated superiority in rate and comprehension in free recall situations. (FL)

The article describes a reading program for gifted high school students which includes speed reading, vocabulary development, spelling, advanced study skills, and a research paper. (PHR)

Examines selected research showing how the components of human information processing limit reading rates. Suggests that speed reading is impossible when the intent is to understand the message communicated by the text. Discusses limiting factors in processes of word recognition, working memory, and comprehension. Discusses evaluative and…

Investigates whether a freshman reading improvement training program will produce gains in reading rate (normal reading rate, not skimming). Finds positive results for the program. (SR)

Fast and average readers were tested on four tasks. Fast readers appear to pick up more information per fixation on structured textual material, and had a greater span of apprehension for unrelated elements. Results disagree with the view that reading speed depends solely on ability to infer missing information. (CHK)

The association of Rotter's Internal-External personality dimension and improvement in reading rate and comprehension was investigated in four reading instruction treatments and a fifth control condition. The motivated instruction was found more effective for increasing reading rate, without significantly affecting reading comprehension, than the…

PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN THE COMPREHENSION OF COMPRESSED SPEECH WERE DEFINED. RECORDED AURAL SPEECH WAS PRESENTED AT VARIOUS RATES BY MODIFICATION OF TAPE RECORDING AND PLAYBACK EQUIPMENT. FOUR TRAINING METHODS WERE EVALUATED USING SEVENTH-, EIGHTH-, AND NINTH-GRADE BLIND STUDENTS AS SUBJECTS. SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN TRAINING METHODS WERE NOT…

APPROXIMATELY 125 REFERENCES TO SPEED READING APPEARING DURING THE PAST 40 YEARS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. THEY ARE GROUPED INTO THE CATEGORIES OF TACHISTOSCOPIC AND CONTROLLED PACING, PAPERBACK SCANNING, RETENTION OF GAINS, FLEXIBILITY, PERCEPTION, PROCESSING INFORMATION, SEX DIFFERENCES, AND MEASUREMENT. MORE THAN 35 JOURNALS…

The purpose of this investigation was to identify the superior method of accelerating reading rate without the use of mechanical assists. A secondary purpose was to identify personality characteristics which might serve as predictors of success in reading rate. Thirty volumteer college level students completed an unstructured course in reading…

Paper prepared under contract with the Defense Language Institute, English Language Branch, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and presented to the staff and faculty of the Institute in 1972. (RS)

Author describes new media, programs and products the publishing industry invents and provides to improve engineering education information systems. (IR)

Two experiments were conducted to examine differences in word-recognition processes between third-grade and college students. Results suggested that children make more predominant use of phonological recoding to obtain lexical access than do adults. (Author/MP)