The aim of this bibliography is to provide a reference on the cloze procedure that will be useful to both the practitioner and the researcher. The selection of material was made on the basis of the following criteria: the importance of the source as a contribution to cloze research; the extent and usefulness of the source's bibliography as a guide…

After 104 high and low ability ninth grade students read prose passages, they wrote all that they remembered about the passage, exhibiting how text features affected text recall. The materials varied in length, the number of propositions presented, and whether headings were used to organize the passage. Only one of the two sets of directions used…

USING DATA OBTAINED BY THE QUALITY MEASUREMENT PROJECT ON SOME 70,000 PUPILS, THIS STUDY ATTEMPTED TO PRODUCE EVIDENCE REGARDING THE INFLUENCE OF CLASS SIZE AND CLASS HOMOGENEITY ON ACHIEVEMENT GAINS IN GRADES 7 AND 8. A TOTAL OF 130 ENGLISH AND 135 MATHEMATICS CLASSES CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO SIZE AND HOMOGENEITY WERE EXAMINED. THE READING…

THE EFFECT OF USING SIMULTANEOUS BIMODAL INPUTS ON THE COMPREHENSION OF CONNECTED DISCOURSE FOR IMPROVING THE READING AND LISTENING SKILLS OF EDUCATIONALLY MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN WAS STUDIED. SUBJECTS WERE STUDENTS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 12 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AND 17 YEARS, 11 MONTHS WHOSE MEASURED INTELLIGENCE WAS BETWEEN 54 AND 86. THE STUDENTS…

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS IN "VOCATIONAL TALENT EXERCISES, PART C" (VT 004 460) ARE GIVEN. RELATED DOCUMENTS ARE VT 004 454 THROUGH VT 004 471. (EM)

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS IN "VOCATIONAL TALENT EXERCISES, PART D" (VT 004 462) ARE GIVEN. OTHER RELATED DOCUMENTS ARE VT 004 454 THROUGH VT 004 471. (EM)

THIS BOOKLET WAS DEVELOPED IN A CURRICULUM PROJECT, DESCRIBED IN VT 004 454, TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE LEARN BASIC PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS OF MECHANICS AND TECHNOLOGY AND THUS RAISE THEIR TRAINABILITY LEVEL. IT IS FOR USE BY THE TEACHER WITH FOUR WORKBOOKS, "VOCATIONAL TALENT EXERCISES," PART A (VT 004 458), PART B (VT 004 459), PART C (VT…

A STUDY OF THE READING HABITS AND ABILITIES OF 132 PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE (1) IF READING SPEED COULD BE INCREASED WITHOUT CHANGE IN COMPREHENSION AND (2) WHETHER INFORMATION ABOUT SOME OF THE BASIC TECHNIQUES OF READING STRESSED IN TYPICAL READING COURSES COULD ELICIT CHANGES IN STANDARDIZED…

THE ACHIEVEMENT TEST PERFORMANCES OF TWO GROUPS OF CHILDREN FOR GRADES 1, 2, AND 3 IN TWO PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, SCHOOLS WERE COMPARED TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A 3-YEAR EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM USING THE PHONOVISUAL METHOD OF READING INSTRUCTION. PUPILS WERE MATCHED ON SEX, IQ, AND CHRONOLOGICAL AGE. DIFFERENCES OBSERVED BETWEEN THE MEAN SCORES…

A STUDY WHICH DEALT WITH ONE ASPECT OF THE QUESTION OF WHY ONE LANGUAGE IS EASY TO COMPREHEND WHILE ANOTHER IS NOT WAS REPORTED. SPECIFICALLY, IT STUDIED THE PROBLEM OF INCREASING THE PRECISION OF READABILITY PREDICTION. THE OBJECTIVES WERE (1) TO DETERMINE THE FORMS AND STRENGTHS OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN COMPREHENSION DIFFICULTY OF LANGUAGE…

The effectiveness of parallel lessons in listening and silent reading was compared to a traditional basal approach to reading comprehension skills instruction. One hundred seventy-four fifth graders from sixteen randomly selected classrooms were divided into experimental and control groups. A pretest on four measures of comprehension was…

A study investigated whether comprehension of a text could be enhanced by careful structuring of the lesson elements surrounding it. One group of ten second grade children received a reading lesson as prescribed in a basal series that directed attention to irrelevant content while failing to highlight consistently important story elements. A…

Traditionally, reading disabled children have been characterized as suffering a performance or process deficit that prevents them from acquiring the knowledge and skills underlying proficient reading and comprehension. Such explanations raise some logical problems. Process oriented theories do not adequately explain the specificity nor address the…

A study was conducted to investigate the ability of children to determine meanings of derived words that have undergone a pronunciation shift while retaining a close orthographic relationship to their base words. A researcher-designed test was constructed using derived words that had their base word included in a "core list" of words at or below…

Current methods for teaching reading comprehension tend to emphasize the products of comprehension and neglect the processes of comprehension. There are two sets of skills that are particularly important to teach. The first set includes comprehension monitoring skills that involve readers' monitoring their continuing processing for possible…