This study investigated differences related to pupils' sex in female teachers' perceptions of pupil social behavior and related these differences to reading achievement. A questionnaire was utilized to measure teachers' perceptions of pupil behavior. Data was obtained from a sample of 20 female first grade teachers and their pupils, 220 girls and…

Educational Testing Service, in cooperation with Response Analysis Corporation and MATHEMATICA, is carrying out a research project to describe reading behaviors of American adults and to translate these behaviors into a prototype of tasks for the measurement of adult reading achievement. A household interview survey of a nationally representative…

The reading program, Words in Color, was used as a 1-year program at the first-grade level in an elementary school in Gainesville, Florida. The reading program in each of four control classes was identifiably unique and varied. Predata were collected using the Metropolitan Readiness Test, Form A, in September, 1969 and the Otis Quick Scoring…

This study was conducted to determine what effect instruction in listening skills would have on reading achievement and listening comprehension of third grade students. "A Skills Oriented Curriculum to Teach Listening," by Metfessel and Hammond, was used to instruct the students, who were then tested to determine whether it had had an effect.…

This study examined the concurrent validity of observed teacher behavior as a predictor of teacher philosophy, teacher professional attitude, and teacher ability to forecast first-grade reading achievement. The population consisted of ten first-grade teachers and 260 students from five Farmington, Utah, schools. In early September, before any…

The purpose of this study was to develop the "Like to Read" program, to determine if this program promoted significant positive changes in sixth-grade students' attitudes toward reading, and to determine if it resulted in a significant gain in reading achievement. Nine sixth-grade classes in the public schools of upper East Tennessee were divided…

Devoted to the affective dimensions of learning to read, this study examined (1) the relationship between reading self-concept at the beginning of first grade and measured reading achievement at the middle of first grade, and (2) the relationships between change in first grade reading self-concept and patterns of observed successes in reading. In…

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which a preassessment of motor development and perceptual skills predicts achievement in word recognition for kindergarten children. The instruments used for evaluation were the Lincoln-Oseretsky Motor Development Scale, Thurstone's Identical Forms Test, Wepman Auditory Discrimination Test,…

The purpose of this study was to investigate possible relationships between the composite set of variables, father's occupational level, sex, reading, achievement, intelligence, basic vocabulary, and the criterion, social studies vocabulary. The study attempted to determine differences in basic and technical vocabularies. It also attempted to…

After training in a direct instructional program can teacher aides teach cognitive skills in reading and arithmetic as competently as do classroom teachers who have been similarly trained? The subjects in this investigation were part of the Englemann-Becker Follow Through Program, an academic program for disadvantaged children in the early…

Many behavioral theorists have suggested that self-directed activity is central to the learning process (e.g., Dewey, Piaget, Wertheimer). Accordingly, it was predicted that such activity bears a significant positive relationship to the quantity, quality, and variety of responses in a reading lesson. Moreover, it was expected that selected…

Of 10 participating inner-city school teachers, five used a modified basal series, and five used the language experience approach for reading instruction. Monthly training sessions were held, and the Medley and Smith's Observation Scale and Rating-Reading was used to lend objectivity to the monthly observations of each teacher. The following…

The latest thinking on reading rate and flexibility is discussed in this paper. Included are highlights of the recently completed reading rate portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The current state of knowledge is assessed and promising research and useful writings in English and Spanish are cited. (Author/WR) Aspect of…

This investigator found and reviewed fifty-one studies reported in the literature on individualized reading between 1937 and 1971. Of this number, forty of these studies were controlled at least to the extent of using control groups. In twenty-four cases the results favored the individualized reading group. Only one author reported higher reading…

The relation between first grade teachers' stated confidence in the predictability of reading readiness test scores and their pupils' achievement in beginning reading was the basis of this study. The experiment required (1) a survey of 341 first grade teachers to obtain a measure of their stated confidence in reading readiness test scores as…