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Orlando, Vincent P,; And Others – Forum for Reading, 1989
Studies the reading demands placed on college freshmen (amount, purpose, and relationship to course examinations of required reading) and students' perceptions of these demands. (SR)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Content Area Reading, Postsecondary Education, Reading Assignments

Bauso, Jean Arrington – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1988
Asserts that reading logs actively involve students in the reading/responding process. Describes the way reading logs fit into the course, a list of topics to give students ideas, and how to grade reading logs. (MS)
Descriptors: College English, English Instruction, Higher Education, Literature

Beauvais, Paul J. – Exercise Exchange, 1989
Describes the Reporter's Reading Method, a student-directed reading system that requires students to write questions as they read, and use those questions as the basis for classroom discussion. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Higher Education, Reading Assignments

Carkenord, David M. – Teaching of Psychology, 1994
Describes a technique used to motivate students to complete assigned journal readings in a college psychology course. Maintains that students completing readings receive two types of tangible benefits: (1) extra course credit and (2) use of their notecards on tests. Asserts that students responded favorably to the technique. (CFR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Psychology, Reading Assignments

Scott, Anne Firor – Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, 1992
Discusses how to motivate students to learn history. Suggests using primary sources, relating subject matter to what students already know, and avoiding lectures whenever possible. Recommends formulating goals in advance, preparing reading lists, preparing questions for students, and assigning individual projects. Argues that such a course will…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Higher Education, History Instruction, Learning Motivation

Westhoff, Gerard J. – ADFL Bulletin, 1991
Provides practical examples of assignments that increase the effectiveness of foreign language reading instruction. It is suggested that, by restructuring reading instruction, the role of the teacher will also be restructured. (12 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Strategies, Prior Learning
Stapleton, Laura M.; Leite, Walter L. – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2005
With increases in the use of structural equation modeling (SEM) in the social sciences, graduate course offerings in this statistical technique can be expected to increase. Knowledge of the content of current SEM course offerings may provide ideas to instructors developing new courses or enhancing current courses. This article discusses results…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Content, Social Sciences, Structural Equation Models
Johannessen, Larry R. – 1992
To help improve students' ability to interpret and write about literature, teachers should get rid of old habits. The old habits include giving quizzes to make sure students read assignments, and assigning readings just because particular works are part the literary canon. Once a teacher assigns a novel and gives a quiz, everything the teacher and…
Descriptors: High Schools, Literature Appreciation, Novels, Reader Response
Hebert, Denis – 1991
An experimental investigation conducted in a rural area of the Province of Quebec (Canada) was designed to show that the assignment of specific reading tasks enhances the development of listening comprehension ability when using authentic video material with intermediate-level English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners. Using a pre-test post-test…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Listening Comprehension
Gray, MaryAnn – 1990
When reading science texts, students often do not know what they know. Prereading activities can help students build bridges from the known to the unknown. Brainstorming will help students recognize their own prior knowledge on the subject and learn from hearing each other's responses. An anticipation guide is a teacher-generated list of questions…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Assignments
Sacco, Steven J.; Marckel, Beverly G. – 1983
Reading can and should be a more widely used foreign language skill, and visual literacy in a foreign language goes beyond comprehension of basal reading materials. Authentic, real-life reading need not wait for foreign language mastery, but can begin at an early level if materials geared to the students' prior knowledge and interest are chosen.…
Descriptors: Culture Contact, French, Periodicals, Reading Assignments

HSU, KAI-YU; AND OTHERS – 1966
DESIGNED FOR USE BY 10TH GRADE STUDENTS AFTER COMPLETION OF THE LEVEL I TEXT, THIS VOLUME ALSO COMPRISES 15 LESSON UNITS PLUS APPENDED INDEXES AND A SECTION ON WRITING NEW CHINESE CHARACTERS. THESE MATERIALS WERE DESIGNED ACCORDING TO THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON CHINESE LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. ACCORDING TO THEIR…
Descriptors: American Culture, Audiolingual Skills, Grade 10, Language Instruction

Long, Betty W. – American Biology Teacher, 1979
The inclusion of Watson's "The Double Helix" in a high school biology DNA unit is described. (BB)
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Biology, Course Content, Genetics

Rothkopf, Ernst Z.; Koether, Mary E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
Study goals may be less effective when the sequence of the list of goals does not match the sequence of goal-relevant information in a reading passage. In a study using undergraduates, learning of goal-relevant information was lower when the study goals and text sequences did not match. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Context Clues, Educational Objectives, Higher Education

Gordon, Christine J.; Rennie, Barbara J. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1987
A study of 178 fifth grade children reveals that content schemata can be restructured through reading activities and that restructuring is more marked when information is presented through reading and semantic mapping/discussion than when it is presented through reading alone. (SKC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Elementary Education, Grade 5, Psychological Studies