The purpose of this study was to use the case study method to diagnose and analyze disabled college readers and to determine their specific reading deficiencies. The subjects for this study were black male freshman volunteers, between the ages of 19 and 24, enrolled in a small, church related college in the Southwest. Negative environmental…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the study of organizers, directed reading activity (DRA) and SQ3R, on the immediate and delayed recall of social studies materials. Eighty-four seventh-grade students from an intermediate school participated in this study. The results of the study indicated that the DRA technique was an…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," serves 10,000 students in grades one through eight who live in neighborhoods that are serviced by schools receiving Title I funds. The program, begun in 1971, is designed to improve students' reading skills and attitudes toward reading. The reading improvement teams (RIT) provide…

Forty randomly selected school children, in four treatment groups of ten each (each comprised of children from the 5, 8, and 12 year age levels) participated in a study to determine the extent to which the capacity for information processed by a child increases in amount with development. Apprehension span (perception and transformation of aural…

The relationship between geographic mobility and pupil achievement in reading was investigated for a sample of 2,072 sixth-grade children. A three-way analysis of variance design provided for the study of three levels of mobility when boys and girls were grouped into three levels of ability. Two additional covariates were employed to cause the…

With comprehension defined as the ability to specify the relationship between two items, an investigation was conducted to determine the ability of children to relate ideas from several sentences to arrive at answers to questions. This study was a replication of a previous study in which inner-city children participated. In constrast, the subjects…

This report describes the algorithm and materials developed at the Research Institute of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (University of Tokyo) for use in testing the abilities of Japanese students in the pronunciation and hearing of English monosyllabic words. The report begins with a description of the method employed for selecting the words to be…

A conceptual category approach to the study of the comprehension of natural language is presented as an alternative to previous approaches made solely in terms of information gain or specific linguistic variables. Elementary school children between the ages of 6 and 11 years were given a referent identification task to test their comprehension of…

Mothers of cleft and noncleft palate children (C- and non C-mothers) listened to a reading by a cleft palate child of a passage containing specified combinations of nasality and intelligibility. Groups were either uninstructed or instructed to listed to the content or the manner of speech; they assessed the nasality and intelligibility of the…

To explore the adequacy of a 50-word list, produced by item analysis of a set of 160 words in an earlier study, also by Tikofsky, tape recordings of 20 adult dysarthrics reading list were evaluated by university students who were native speakers of English and had no history of hearing loss. Results of the intelligibility study showed that the…

This study was concerned with the possible relationships between the seventh-grader's ability to write creatively and his reading comprehension his sex, his chronological age, his general intelligence, and his interest in the assigned topic. The creativity scale devised to score the student's creative writing ability included 12 scoring criteria…

The purpose of this series of four studies was to precisely describe the code and dialect features of the speech of both lower class Negro children and middle class white children. In the first study, 16 white middle class (WMC) children were compared to 16 Negro lower class (NLC) children on both an imitation and a comprehension task. The WMC…

The need for students to use new vocabulary words in complete sentences is stressed, so that the teacher may be certain the words are properly understood and a part of the student's vocabulary. Examples show student confusion arising from a misinterpretation of the dictionary definition or a failure to recognize parts of speech. The special…

An overall look is taken at the cloze research method as a new tool for measuring readability. The construction of a cloze readability test is described as well as several studies made on the reliability and validity of such tests. Included also are some methodological considerations to be kept in mind when constructing a cloze test. Data is…

Because junior college students so frequently need remedial reading training and grammar review and because few teachers in such institutions have special training in reading instruction, a reading center was set up at Flint Community Junior College in Michigan. The Center used 2,500 square feet and a variety of types of equipment and materials…