The purpose of this study was to determine whether cloze procedure could be used in adult literacy programs serving those students reading from about fourth grade reading equivalent level through high school equivalency level. This research investigated three questions: (1) Is cloze procedure acceptable for this group? (2) Can cloze procedure be…

This article presents views of proponents and opponents to standardized tests, isolates the major weakness of testing--questionable validity--and offers several recommendations for the betterment of test development and use. Some major misuses of tests include the following: (a) tests are at times administered with no clear purpose; (b) test…

The role of the classroom teacher as a diagnostician is described. Since the purpose of reading diagnosis is to ascertain the probable potential of each student and to determine what his instructional needs are and where to begin instruction, extensive individual testing is neither possible nor recommended for the classroom teacher. However,…

This joint investigation involving the Omaha Job Corps Center for Women and the Marquette Job Corps Center for Women assessed the remedial reading programs of the two centers. A major objective was to provide Job Corps norms for the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test, Survey E, forms 1M and 2M. Each center designated control and experimental groups.…

The performances on selected measures of reading achievement and intelligence of 24 educationally disadvantaged adults and two groups of elementary children were investigated and compared. The first group of children was drawn from a low socioeconomic level, and the second, from a high socioeconomic level. There was a stronger correlation between…

A total of 180 reports found relevant fo r the annual review of research on college-adult reading was treated under five major headings. Studies that dealt with trends, origin and development of programs, descriptions of specific programs, and the evaluation of the improvement of program participants were classified under the heading of programs.…

An investigation was undertaken of the intercorrelations among residuals obtained by applying regression techniques under two conditions: (1) mean sixth-grade Metropolitan Achievement Test reading scores predicted by mean second-grade Stanford Achievement Test reading scores, and (2) mean sixth-grade reading scores predicted by mean second-grade…

The 302 reports of reading research summarized here were published between July 1, 1971, and June 30, 1972. The research has been categorized under six headings. The first category includes other summaries of research, classified as general or under specific titles. The second category consists of research literature related to teacher preparation…

This bulletin presents news and opinions of the staff of Project Brave of the St. John Valley in northern Maine. Included in this issue are the results of reading tests, the aims of bilingual education, a report on a slide series related to life in the St. John Valley, and many photographs of activities at Project Brave. The text is in English and…

Analysis of behaviorally expressed instructional objectives, materials, and criterion test items in reading has generated a finite list of operations and conditions that cover almost all possible reading activities and behaviors. The list has been organized into a short, simple Code Key. A 15-cell computerized syntax has been designed to carry the…

The purpose of this study was to obtain a measure of the reliability of the informal reading inventory (IRI) when administered to selected sixth grade students. Houghton Mifflin's Pupil Placement Tests were administered to 36 sixth grade girls. The raw scores of the students on the pupil Placement Tests were divided into two equivalent halves, and…

Designed to measure the ability of children to identify the meanings of structurally ambiguous or unambiguous sentences of English, the test consists of forty lead sentences: ten with surface structure ambiguity, ten with underlying structure ambiguity, and twenty which are unambiguous. For each of the lead sentences three interpretative sentences…

Designed to measure the normal development of several of the elemental skills which children must acquire if they are to become skilled readers, this study involved the design and testing of batteries of tests to measure the various reading subskills identified. The battery consists of the following tests: visual, auditory, audiovisual,…

Designed to enable classroom teachers to screen an entire classroom of children simultaneously for visual processing skills, this test uses a four-page answer booklet and nine 35mm slides, and it includes activities for both near- and far-point visual skills. The test is used only for gross measurement, and a child who makes a low score would be…

The outcomes of an inservice program to effect a positive change in attitude of teachers toward the specific reading problems of individual children are described. It was hypothesized that an awareness of isolated information would help develop the professional sophistication commensurate with the expected quality of teaching which was to be…