The purpose of the present investigation was to examine graduate students' reading comprehension and reading vocabulary, by comparing scores of graduate students on a standardized reading test to scores obtained by a large normative sample of undergraduates. Participants were 59 graduate students from various disciplines, enrolled in three…

This first annual report describes student performance in reading and writing from the spring 1997 administration of the Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP). In this first administration of CSAP, all fourth grade students in Colorado were assessed. The report provides policymakers, educators, parents, and the community with a general…

Designed to provide an experience as close as possible to the actual assessment, this paper presents the revised model of assessment in reading for the Michigan High School Test (HST). The revisions incorporated into the paper reflect the testing transition from the High School Proficiency Test to the HST. The first part of the paper presents…

This issue of a monthly serial publication of the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP), which is available only online in PDF Format, examines efforts underway in Colorado, Maryland, and Montgomery County, Maryland to increase student achievement in reading (related to Goal 3 of the NEGP). After an overview, it discusses Colorado's efforts to…

Student scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) tests are increasingly being used for administrative purposes. Promotion and placement decisions are largely governed by FCAT performance. Although efforts are made to make the FCAT scores available as soon as possible, for some purposes they are not on hand when needed.…

An air temperature of 68 to 74 degrees Fahrenheit is ideal for most learning situations, particularly in reading and mathematics. (Author/MLF)

The study was designed to determine the effectiveness of a teacher education program using empirical measures to detect changes in tutees' attitude toward reading, selected personality factors, and reading achievement during the tutoring period. (Author)

Twenty high school seniors from a psychology class were used to tutor 20 primary grade pupils. (NQ)

A look at some of the special educational problems related to teaching inner-city children and at how one school approaches these problems. (AK)

Illustrates a compromise between vertical and horizontal typographies which should make speed reading faster and more reliable, and suggests that computers could prepare text according to this arrangement. (MB)

Study of 366 sixth-grade children of enlisted Air Force personnel showed that mobility had no adverse effect on their reading achievement and, on the contrary, may have contributed to their reading proficiency. (NH)

Measures the effects of tape recordings alone, tape recordings and printed texts, and printed texts alone on the comprehension, oral reading, and vocabulary abilities of eighth-grade students and reports no significant differences with any method. Bibliography. (MD)