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Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The ten titles deal with the following topics: (1) an inductive method for teaching three skills necessary for reading narrative fiction; (2) the use of reading strategies in secondary level content area classrooms; (3) seventh grade…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Doctoral Dissertations
Haugh, Rita; And Others – Studies in Language Learning, 1981
A new curricular router created to be more flexible, more user-oriented, and use less computer memory was developed in 1979. Although initially called the "Indiana Routing System" (TIRS), it has been renamed the "Indiana Manager of PLATO-Assisted Curricula." This new router permits any mixture of the instructional strategies of…
Descriptors: College English, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Curriculum Design
Greenewald, M. J.; Wolf, Anne E. – 1979
Videotapes of eight high school classes were analyzed to determine patterns in the reading activities, materials, and instruction in secondary content area classes. The analysis included a summary of the language arts involved, the duration of specific instructional segments and their percentage of the total class time, and apparent patterns in…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Content Area Reading, Reading Habits
PDF pending restorationAvant, Glen R. – 1979
Nineteen children, aged 7 through 17, were pretested, individually tutored in reading for 12 weeks, and posttested in a study to examine the effect of an individualized reading tutorial program on the locus of control and locus of evaluation of children with reading disabilities. A reliable, valid measure of locus of control and locus of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Individualized Reading, Learning Disabilities
Cranney, A. Garr; Kirby, Alan F. – 1980
Time management may be the most important study skill. The effects of a specific teaching technique designed to alter the time management skills of undergraduate students in a voluntary study skills course were assessed. Of the 95 subjects, 34 were enrolled in the course and were exposed to time management instruction, 31 were future course…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Efficiency, Higher Education
Brown, Ann L.; And Others – 1980
Focusing on how teachers can devise instructional routines to help students learn to learn, this paper discusses mechanisms for training students to devise their own strategies for learning. Because of the dominance of deliberate memory strategies in training research, the paper begins with a brief consideration of such literature, then proceeds…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
Santa Rita, Emilio – 1980
The evaluative study described in this report focused on students' and staff's responses to the Probationary Workshop Program (PWP) for students on academic probation at Bronx Community College. After introductory material dealing with the objectives and limitations of the program evaluation, the report looks at the general characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, College Faculty, Minicourses, Participant Satisfaction
Soven, Margot – 1981
College freshmen, when confronted with an essay question using broad concepts such as "society,""freedom," and "progress," seldom clarify or define the concepts in their essays before expressing their opinions or solutions. Students who read without interpreting the concepts implied by certain words shortchange the…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1980
Fifteen basic skills improvement projects in Wisconsin school districts are described. These projects are federally funded (through the Elementary Secondary Education Act Title II) and are limited to adoptions or adaptations of programs which proved to be successful in other school districts. Basic skills are identified as reading, mathematics,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Improvement Programs, Individual Instruction
Austin, Rose; Dean-Guilford, Maude – 1981
Two studies were conducted to determine the effects of specific reading strategies on content area comprehension and reading skills. The strategies tested were a specific study guide, directed reading questions, cognitive organizer, and structured overview. In the first study, 225 students enrolled in a community college history course were…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Higher Education, History Instruction
Wicklund,David A.; Katz, Leonard – 1977
Differences in perceptual processes of good and poor readers relevant to single word perception have been studied in a series of experiments. The major differences between good and poor readers have been shown to occur at the level of the single word; other differences occur in knowledge of spelling patterns and ability to make use of letters'…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Letters (Alphabet), Memory
Stolte, Joanne B.; Smith, Shirley C. – 1980
A cost-effective, computer-based, Navy-related basic reading skills program was developed for United States Navy recruits reading below sixth grade level. The program, called Performance-Related Enabling Skills Training (PREST), is designed to enable recruits to improve their reading and study skills and, thereby, increase the probability of their…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Armed Forces, Computer Assisted Instruction, Functional Literacy
Burg, Leslie; Kaufman, Maurice – 1979
The compensatory program in reading/study skills, writing, and mathematics at Northeastern University (Massachusetts) is described. An evaluation of the program's reading/study skills component during 1977 and 1978 is reported, demonstrating significant student improvement as a result of the program. Guidelines are offered to help other colleges…
Descriptors: College Students, Compensatory Education, Guidelines, Higher Education
WARWICK, EUNICE; AND OTHERS – 1964
THE MADISON, WISCONSIN, CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR THE TEACHING OF READING AND LITERATURE IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE SIX IS DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS. PART 1 CONTAINS THE MADISON POINT OF VIEW CONCERNING READING AND LITERATURE IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, AND PROVIDES FLOW CHARTS TO HELP THE TEACHER PERCEIVE THE TOTAL READING AND LITERATURE PROGRAM.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Interpretive Skills
Strader, Susan G.; Joy, Flora – 1980
Based on college students' grade point averages (GPA) and their scores on the Nelson-Denny Reading Tests and the Joy Combining Forms Test, a multiple classification analysis of variance was performed to determine the effects of three different methods of vocabulary instruction on student achievement in a reading and study skills course. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Grade Point Average
