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Download full textSCHNEYER, J. WESLEY; AND OTHERS – 1966
THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF TWO APPROACHES FOR TEACHING READING TO FIRST-GRADE CHILDREN AT HIGH, AVERAGE, AND LOW ABILITY SCORE LEVELS WAS INVESTIGATED, AND THE VARIABLES THAT DIFFERENTIATED BETWEEN HIGH AND LOW ACHIEVERS UNDER BOTH APPROACHES WERE COMPARED. THE TWO APPROACHES WERE--(1) THE FRIES LINGUISTIC METHOD, AND (2) THE SCOTT, FORESMAN…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Basic Reading, Child Development, Grade 1
Doyle, Mary J. – 1980
The degree to which good and poor high school readers comprehend prose was studied in relation to their ability to (1) use passage organization to facilitate comprehension; (2) use task instructions to facilitate comprehension; and (3) answer verbatim and paraphrase items used to measure comprehension. Eleventh grade students were given the…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Context Clues, Grade 11, High Schools
Olson, Carol – 1978
A study was conducted to examine the comprehension process of ten proficient fourth grade readers as they read a story within a particular instructional environment. The instructional environment was designed to provide for background experiences, purpose for reading, and purposeful feedback. Results indicated that the subjects constructed a great…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 4, High Achievement, Psycholinguistics
The Child's Concept of Reading: Its Relationship with Cognitive Development and Reading Achievement.
Fletcher, Patricia M. – 1977
Twenty second grade students were tested to determine the possible relationships between concrete operations and reading and between cognitive clarity and reading achievement. The subjects performed six Piagetian conservation tasks and four tasks on cognitive clarity. Reading achievement was based on student records. The data on the relationship…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Style, Correlation
Abram, Marie J.; Cobb, Robert A. – 1979
A study investigated whether various home and school factors were related to first grade reading gain. Parents of all second grade students in a school district were asked to complete questionnaires eliciting the number of persons living in the household, the strictness of parental discipline, number of hours spent reading to the child each week,…
Descriptors: Attendance, Family Influence, Family School Relationship, Grade 1
Wade, Benny B. – 1980
In response to the interest in the potential good that may result from the development and implementation of parent education programs, the Dooly County (Georgia) school district organized several parent education efforts beginning in 1973-74. During the 1976-77 school year, the reading coordinator decided to conduct a parent education program…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Parent Education, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
Arnold, Richard D.; Westphal, R. C., Jr. – 1979
Stanford Diagnostic Reading Tests and The Wide Range Achievement Tests were administered to 307 second, fourth, and sixth grade students to study the reading subskills of blacks, Latinos, and Asians/whites. An analysis of variance tested main effects of ethnicity, reading levels (good, average, and poor), and interaction effects. Main effects of…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Elementary Education, Ethnic Groups, Ethnicity
Gastright, Joseph F. – 1979
The patterns of reading achievement growth for Title I children in Cincinnati, Ohio, schools were examined to see whether gains in reading achievement by these children were lost over the summer months. The subjects were 295 children who remained in the program from second to fourth grade, and 175 children who remained in the program from third to…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Longitudinal Studies, Program Effectiveness
General Electric Co., Washington, DC. TEMPO. – 1971
This paper reviews the findings of TEMPO's 1967 and subsequent evaluation studies and offers some conclusions and recommendations aimed at strengthening Title I compensatory education programs. An overview of Title I and a description of the TEMPO study and its methodology are provided. It is stated that, with the measurement methods used, no…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs
Schreiner, Robert, Ed. – 1979
This guidebook puts testing in proper perspective as one aspect of evaluation and leads the test user through a practical discussion about selecting and developing valid, reliable tests. Its primary purpose is to assist classroom teachers, reading consultants, and school administrators in making decisions about measuring student reading…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement, Reading Diagnosis
Mosenthal, Peter; And Others – 1978
Noting the limitations of recent word recognition research, this paper suggests ways that these limitations might be overcome and then extends these suggestions into a framework for distinguishing between good and poor readers' ability to comprehend words. The paper begins by reviewing the major models of word recognition and discussing their…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Linguistics, Models, Paralinguistics
Dungan, Rebecca Kirschenman – 1978
Forty-eight first grade students participated in a three-fold study to (1) examine the effect of repeated exposure to text on memory for prose as determined through retelling, (2) determine how low and high comprehending students performed on this task, and (3) determine if males would perform as well as females on the task. The subjects were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grade 1, Memory, Primary Education
Hocevar, Susan P.; Hocevar, Dennis – 1973
The purpose of this study was to determine if beginning readers read with fewer errors when the reading materials had content directly related to the reader's existing cognitive structure (for example, reading based on recent concrete experiences). Meaningfulness was manipulated by basing the reading materials on an audio-tutorial science program…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Content Area Reading, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
Baker, Eva L. – 1968
The following criticism of current practices for determining reading readiness are discussed: (1) the variables measured by readiness tests are in many cases unrelated to instruction, (2) while the variables measured are correlated with reading achievement, this association does not attribute causality, and (3) the criterion selected for measuring…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Predictive Measurement, Prereading Experience, Reading Achievement
Cleland, Donald L.; And Others – 1968
A project designed (1) to determine the incidence of vocalism during silent reading in intermediate-grade children classified as either reading retardates or achievers and (2) to determine the desirability of this vocalism as an adjunct to the reading process was described. The major conclusions reached were that implicit speech is a natural…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Educational Media, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Intermediate Grades
