Evaluates the use of 5-year-olds' scores on a picture reading task to predict the children's later reading performance. Suggests that the picture reading task measures differences in children's understanding of the nature and purpose of reading. (CW)

In winter 1979, a study was conducted at C. S. Mott Community College (MCC) to determine the salient characteristics of successful students. Students in 63 upper-level courses took the Nelson-Denny Reading Test, Form A, and also completed a demographic questionnaire. The mean total reading score for all students had a grade equivalent of 13.1,…

AN ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF A READING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FOR MEDICAL LABORATORY ASSISTANT TRAINEES WHO NEEDED TO IMPROVE THEIR SKILLS IN ORDER TO SUCCEED IN THEIR TECHNICAL COURSE IS PRESENTED. THE STUDENTS WERE GIVEN TESTS OF VOCABULARY, COMPREHENSION, RATE, AND LISTENING COMPREHENSION. THEY KEPT RECORDS OF THEIR OWN PROGRESS, AND POST-TESTS…

This year-long study was conducted to investigate effects of various teacher accountability factors on reading achievement of first-grade pupils. Each of fifteen schools was assigned through randomized blocking procedures (blocking factors were reading achievement and percentage of minority students) to one of four levels of accountability.…

One hundred six freshman students were studied as to their performance on mathematics and reading tests in relation to their parents' education. These tests were local tests and were not based on national norms. Results showed that the mother's education influenced the test performance more than the father's, but both mother's and father's…

The purpose of this study was to explore the possibility that student achievement in reading is, in part, a function of the interaction between a student's level of tension and his learning environment. Possible relationships between absence and achievement, absence and group assignment, and absence and level of tension were also investigated. The…

Two memory tasks--a constructive memory task and a semantic retrieval task--were used with groups of good and poor readers in second grade, in an effort to determine what effect, if any, memory processes have on reading. (MP)

Six practical and readily accessible informal assessment strategies for evaluating adult readers are described. These include (1) observation, (2) simplified reading inventories, (3) cloze procedures, (4) group reading inventories, (5) criterion-referenced tests, and (6) informal reading inventories. (CH)

Reviews the procedures and outcomes of ten different peer tutoring projects. The evidence reviewed suggests that peer tutored paired reading accelerates children's reading progress, with peer tutors gaining more than the children who receive tutoring. (Author/JDH)

An overview of psychophysical studies on visual factors that influence normal- and low-vision reading is presented. General principles, such as the presence or absence of central vision, were found to predict reading performance despite the heterogeneity of low-vision conditions. Results suggested most low-vision subjects meet the visual…

K. Kavale responds to criticism of his earlier meta-analysis assessing the relationship between auditory perceptual skills and reading. R. Gersten and D. Carnine rejoin that the correlations Kavale found between auditory skills and reading achievement scores are of limited pragmatic use to the field. (CL)

Parental responses (N=125) to scaled items in home interviews were factor analyzed and family environment dimensions were employed as predictor variables. Parents of proficient readers were characterized as adapted to their children's deafness, involved in the deaf community, and permissive rather than overprotective. High achievers had parents…

Average and backward readers from Grades 2, 4, and 6 were examined for their performance on five cognitive tasks, three of which measured memory span. Results were consistent with a developmental trend and increment with reading competence. No differences were obtained between matched groups, which supported a developmental interpretation.…