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Solomon, Bernard – Learning Today, 1975
A television-based experiment emphasizes reading instead of satisfying teachers. (Author)
Descriptors: Motivation, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials
Mustachio, Cheryl A. – 1989
A study compared college students' reading attitude to their achievement in reading comprehension. Subjects, 81 students enrolled in one of three college level reading improvement courses, completed the Mikulecky Behavioral Reading Attitude Measure (MBRAM) and had their scores compared to the results of the reading comprehension test of the New…
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, Higher Education, Reading Achievement
Speece, Deborah; McKinney, James D. – 1984
The purposes of this study were to use empirical, multivariate classification techniques to form subtypes of learning disabled readers (N=59) on a select sample of information processing skills and to validate the subtypes on reading achievement subskills. Hierarchical cluster analysis techniques resulted in a six-cluster solution which…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Reading Achievement
Peterson, Raymond P. – Percept Mot Skills, 1969
Descriptors: Anxiety, Eye Movements, Grade 3, Reading Achievement
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Palardy, J. Michael – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Males, Reading Achievement, Reading Research
McCarson, Carole – 1980
The results of the 1980 Atlanta, Georgia, public schools reading scores for the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) are presented in this report for grades one through seven. Raw scores and grade equivalents are presented first, followed by a comparison of the 1980 grade equivalents with those from the previous four years, indicating a steady…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, National Norms, Public Schools, Reading Achievement
Cooley, William W.; And Others – 1979
The explanatory observational study investigated the relationships among curriculum content, instructional activity, teachers' expectations and reading performance for 52 children in six primary grade classrooms for the learning disabled. The analysis illustrates the utility of structural modeling in clarifying the probable causal relationships…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Expectation, Learning Disabilities, Models
Chambless, Martha; Parham, Charles – 1978
To discover the effects of breakfast on reading achievement a study was conducted comparing 100 primary students from the 1975-1976 school year before a school breakfast program was instituted and 100 students from the 1977-1978 school year who participated in a school breakfast program. Reading scores from the California Achievement Test…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Nutrition, Primary Education, Program Evaluation
STORY, SUETTA B. – 1966
THE PUPILS IN A FIRST-GRADE CLASS IN MESA, ARIZONA, MADE THEIR OWN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE WORDS THEY COULD READ WHICH WERE NOT IN THE BASAL READERS. THE LIST TOTALED 2,124 WORDS. NOT EVERY CHILD KNEW ALL THE WORDS, BUT SOME KNEW ALL, AND ALL KNEW SOME. THE STUDY IS PRESENTED AS AN ANSWER TO THE STATEMENT BY PROFESSOR ARTHUR S. TRACE, JR., THAT…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Maxwell, Martha J. – 1969
Results of a number of studies of correlations between achievement in Reading and Study Skills Laboratory (RSSL) work at the University of Maryland and both academic achievement and personality variables are presented. Findings of early studies suggested that better students tended to stay in RSSL programs; whereas, later studies showed the…
Descriptors: College Programs, Motivation, Reading Achievement, Reading Skills
Heydenberk, Warren Robert – 1971
The purpose of this study was to compare the results obtained from four methods for estimating reading potential when they were applied to twenty-nine high ability eighth grade students. The estimates were obtained by using the Bond and Tinker formula, the Harris Reading Expectancy Age formula listening capacity level, and the Analysis of Learning…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Listening Comprehension, Reading, Reading Achievement
Thorndike, Robert L. – 1972
Some results from an international study of reading are discussed in this paper. Subjects were 10-year olds, 14-year olds, and secondary school seniors in 15 countries. A reading comprehension test was administered and the 10 and 14-year olds were given a speed reading test. Data analysis was at three levels: individual pupil scores, school…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
Northwest Multi-Service Educational Center, Valparaiso, IN. – 1971
The objective of this project was to examine the achievement scores of disabled readers. Raw scores of pretest and posttest of the same pupil were computed in terms of percent gain or loss, and a second method shows the ratios of grade levels and instructional reading levels on pretest and posttest of the same pupil. The pupils from 32 public and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Reading, Reading, Reading Achievement
Steig, Janet – 1972
Student teacher congruency and its relationship to reading achievement in grades four through six are explored. Two questions were posed. First, do teachers see their students in the same way that the students see themselves? Second, what relationship does this congruency have to reading achievement? One hundred thirty-eight students in fourth,…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Research
Weintraub, Samuel, Comp. – 1972
The items in this annotated bibliography include studies, journal literature, USOE-sponsored research, and the conference proceedings of the International Reading Association, covering the years 1950 to 1969. Part I is devoted to "Audition" which encompasses reports based on all aspects of listening and its relationship to reading, and "Auditory…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Bibliographies, Deafness, Handicapped Children
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