This study was designed to investigate the construction of a new measure for assessing reading performance which would prove to be a more sensitive and useful instrument for measuring the achievement growth induced by reading programs than the usual standardized tests. This report outlines the procedures followed in generating the model and…

Twenty-eight fifth and sixth graders who had attended the University of Illinois Reading Center for an analytical diagnosis of reading difficulties were compared with a group of 33 students at the same grade level who had not had the benefit of diagnosis beyond the survey level to determine (1) whether the analytical level of diagnosis could…

In the evaluation study reported, students in a school using the continuous progress plan were compared with students in a school using a graded, self-contained classroom model. Differences were sought in the areas of achievement in reading and mathematics between fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade pupils and attitudes toward self and school.…

In this study, 100 second graders from a midwestern city were given an oral syntax test which measured seventeen syntactic competencies and a parallel written syntax test. Metropolitan reading and Slosson intelligence tests were also administered. Significant relationships between syntax attainment and reading achievement (R = .70) and between…

The purpose of this study was to assess the reading growth of pupils in the Pinellas County (Florida) Reading System (PCRS) as compared with pupils in other types of reading programs. Data on 757 children in the target schools and 768 children in the comparison schools was analyzed. The conclusions reached in this evaluation were: that this study…

The purpose of this study was to document the workings of successful inner-city schools in teaching children to read. The study schools were identified by gathering poverty data on the proportion of the attending students who received free lunch or free milk and the proportion of children in the attendance areas who were from low income families.…

In order to discover whether there were any inner-city elementary schools in Massachusetts which were successful in teaching children to read, a two-year study was undertaken. Results of the study, reported in this document, showed that there is no one pattern for success but that there is a process by which schools, either alone or in…

This conference panel report focuses on the identification and validation of essential reading skills and on the organization of those skills into instructional hierarchies. The three approaches to research which the panel recommended are the identification and validation of behaviors essential or supportive to the acquisition of competent reading…

The objectives of this study were to determine the strength and importance of the relationships among features of oral and written language proficiency and their accompanying thought processes, and to dimensionalize variables that may be manipulated to assist development of disadvantaged children. Test scores from measures of language/thinking…

The purposes of this paper are (1) to assist Career Development for Children Project (CDCP) writers in developing more readable curriculum materials and (2) to better identify research and development priorities. The first part surveys two contrasting methods that have been found useful in predicting the readability of written texts. The second…

There is mixed evidence regarding the ability of students to retain reading ability over long, non-instructional periods such as the summer recess. In some instances there are significant losses in reading ability, while in other cases the losses fail to reach significance. However, in some cases, such as with basic visual discrimination tasks,…

To answer questions concerning the simple and multivariate relationships of intelligence, divergent thinking, and self-concept with reading achievement, measures of verbal divergent thinking and self-concept were administered to 188 students from an urban, lower middle class, elementary school. Reading achievement and intelligence scores were…

This paper describes the field implementation of a multi-level information feedback system developed in the School District of Philadelphia, discusses some of the problems involved in its implementation, and shares some of the insights gained in the process. The program, which is designed to improve the reading skills of students, is oriented…

This paper discusses the results of a literature study concerning the investigation of models of reading and theories of learning to read, method comparison research, and research on teacher effectiveness. It relates the findings of these studies to a study of teaching behavior in the process of teaching children to read. This latter study…

This study investigated the relationship between sex-typing of reading and reading comprehension achievement in third grade boys, and sex-typing of reading and reading choice behavior in kindergarten boys. The study also explored the effects of sex and interest of test materials on reading comprehension achievement in third graders. Data were…