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Download full textMassey, Randy H.; Mathews, John J. – 1980
A study was conducted to examine the reading levels of United States Air Force civilian employees according to occupational groupings and grade structure. Approximately 1,050 Air Force civilian subjects were tested on the Nelson-Denny Reading Test or the California Reading Test. Subjects were selected from eight Air Force bases representing the…
Descriptors: Adults, Government Employees, Job Skills, Occupations
FRY, EDWARD – 1965
A STUDY TO DETERMINE IF READING READINESS MATERIALS ARE NECESSARY IN THE FIRST GRADE REVEALS THAT THEY ARE NOT. THE EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF A SUBURBAN MIDDLE CLASS COMMUNITY IN NEW JERSEY. TESTS WERE ADMINISTERED IN SEPTEMBER TO ALL PUPILS OF THE FIRST GRADE. NO READING INSTRUCTION HAD BEEN GIVEN IN KINDERGARTEN AND NO…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 1, Instructional Materials
OTTO, WAYNE – 1966
THIS PAPER SUMMARIZED THE RESULTS OF SEVERAL STUDIES CONDUCTED BY THE AUTHOR TO (1) INVESTIGATE THE GENERALITY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REACTIVE INHIBITION AND ACHIEVEMENT AND (2) DETERMINE FACTORS THAT AFFECT INHIBITORY POTENTIAL. THESE STUDIES WERE MADE WITH A VARIETY OF SAMPLE GROUPS. RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN REACTIVE INHIBITION AND ACHIEVEMENT…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Child Development
Wilkinson, Louise Cherry; Calculator, Steve – 1980
Fifty-four first grade students comprising eight reading groups in three separate classrooms participated in a study that examined effective and appropriate communication in peer-directed groups. Specifically, the study investigated selected aspects of requests for information and action and their relationship to language ability, social…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Language Usage, Listening Skills, Peer Relationship
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Research, Planning and Evaluation. – 1980
This report provides an analysis of data from the 1978-79 school year that was collected in an evaluation of reading materials used for instructional purposes in grades one through six of the District of Columbia public schools. Following a discussion of the scope and purpose of the evaluation project, the report provides findings that address the…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Formative Evaluation, Reading Achievement
Tillman, Chester; And Others – 1978
A study was conducted using contemporary test scores to describe adults who reported that they had experienced severe reading problems in childhood and that such problems continued to influence their functioning as adults. Twelve men and one woman ranging in age from 20 to 54 volunteered for the study. All had attended college or technical school…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Comparative Analysis, Learning Problems
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1979
This document, prepared by the Evaluation System of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia, summarizes the results of analyses of factors affecting reading achievement for elementary students for the year 1976-77. It also provides comparisons with results obtained from analyses of the 1975-76 data. It includes the purpose and scope of the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement
Marshall, Hermine H. – 1977
This study investigated the effect of various dimensions of classroom structure on children's reading skills. Two classrooms each from grades one to three were selected by district administrators as outstanding examples of different types of classroom structure. A sample of 16 children was drawn from each class. Each classroom was observed on the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Open Education, Primary Education
White, Hazel Lee – 1976
Sixty-eight fifth and sixth graders participated in a study of the relationship between self-concept, need achievement, and reading achievement and of the effects of a supplementary program designed to enhance self-concept and need achievement. The California Reading Test, the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale, the Socio-Cultural…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Intermediate Grades, Program Evaluation, Reading Achievement
Wiesendanger, Katherine D.; Birlem, Ellen D. – 1978
The results of a survey of 225 primary school teachers indicate that a high proportion of children in the primary grades are in classrooms that use the basal reader approach. In addition, it is apparent that the vast majority are assigned to either a high, medium, or low group. Once this assignment is made, it becomes difficult for a child to be…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Classification, Group Instruction, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Hayes, Robert B.; Wuest, Richard C. – 1969
The following approaches to beginning reading were compared: (1) a basal reader program utilizing a whole word, carefully controlled vocabulary, and ability grouping procedures; (2) a phonics approach, with many different words, using essentially whole class procedures; (3) a combination whole word basal program supplemented with a phonics…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Reading, Educational Attitudes, Elective Reading
MCCRACKEN, ROBERT A. – 1968
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE IF A HAWTHORNE EFFECT WERE PRESENT IN A 3-YEAR LONGITUDINAL STUDY WHICH COMPARED TWO METHODS OF TEACHING READING IN FIRST GRADE. THE INITIAL SUBJECTS WERE TWO TEACHERS AND FIVE FIRST-GRADE CLASSES OF RANDOMLY ASSIGNED STUDENTS WHO COMPOSED ONE EXPERIMENTAL, ONE CONTROL, AND THREE SUBCONTROL GROUPS.…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Grade 1, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Vernon, Magdalen D., Comp. – 1966
This annotated bibliography on visual perception and its relation to reading is composed of 55 citations ranging in date from 1952 to 1965. Its divisions include Perception of Shape by Young Children, Perception of Words by Children, Perception in Backward Readers, and Perception of Shapes, Letters, and Words by Adults. Listings which include…
Descriptors: Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Children, Reading Achievement
Kelly, Ann Marie – 1977
Ninety kindergarten, first-grade, and second-grade students participated in this study of ability to segment oral language into words and word units. Each child completed two individually administered oral segmentation tests and the Metropolitan Achievement Test. Results indicated that the ability to segment orally presented sentences developed…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Oral Language
Broward County School Board, Fort Lauderdale, FL. – 1974
This study was designed to determine whether third-year pupils in a reading center project maintained their reading gains 16 months after leaving the program. Subjects consisted of two control groups and an experimental group--a random sample of third-year pupils enrolled at the reading center during the fall of the 1972-1973 school year.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement, Reading Centers
