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Download full textHOPPOCK, ANNE – 1966
ARGUMENTS AGAINST FORMALIZED READING INSTRUCTION IN THE KINDERGARTEN WERE PRESENTED. AFTER PRELIMINARY COMMENTS CONCERNING THE PURPOSE AND PLAN OF THE CONFERENCE, THE NEW JERSEY STATE BOARD STANDARDS FOR KINDERGARTENS WERE DISCUSSED IN LIGHT OF THEIR CRITERIA FOR ESTABLISHMENT AND THEIR ADMINISTRATION. THE CASE AGAINST MAKING READING INSTRUCTION A…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Early Reading, Kindergarten
GIBSON, ROBERT L. – 1965
A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO COMPARE THE ACHIEVEMENT LEVELS OF BRITISH AND UNITED STATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN GRADES 1-6, OF VARYING ABILITY LEVELS, FROM BOTH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS AT THE APPROXIMATE BEGINNING, MIDDLE, AND END OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR. ACHIEVEMENT ANALYSES WERE BASED PRIMARILY UPON SCORES EARNED ON THE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Achievement Tests, Arithmetic
SINGER, HARRY – 1965
SEVERAL DEVELOPMENTAL HYPOTHESES DRAWN FROM THE SUBSTRATA-FACTOR THEORY OF READING WERE TESTED AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL. TO ELABORATE ON THEORETICAL ASSERTIONS THAT READING ABILITY IS AN AUDIOVISUAL PROCESSING SKILL OF SYMBOLIC REASONING, THE SUBSTRATA FACTORS ACCOMPANYING DEVELOPMENT OF SPEED AND POWER OF READING WERE DEPICTED IN…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Theories, Reading, Reading Ability
CHALL, JEANNE S.; FELDMANN, SHIRLEY C. – 1966
THE PRIMARY INVESTIGATION CONCERNED THE EFFECT OF TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS, STYLE, AND INTERPRETATION OF READING METHOD ON PUPIL READING ACHIEVEMENT SCORES BOTH IN JANUARY AND JUNE IN THE FIRST-GRADE YEAR. AN ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE DESIGN WAS USED. FOURTEEN TEACHERS COMPLETED A QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGNED TO DISTINGUISH TWO BASIC KINDS OF BEGINNING…
Descriptors: Background, Beginning Reading, Classroom Techniques, Grade 1
McClendon, Patricia R.; And Others – 1980
The 1978 South Carolina Basic Skills Assessment Act mandated that a readiness test be administered to each beginning first grade student, and that the results be used to plan appropriate instruction. The Cognitive Skills Assessment Battery (CSAB) was selected for this purpose. This study was designed to determine if the CSAB provides adequate…
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Grade 1
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. Div. of Operations, Research, and Evaluation. – 1979
A minimum standards amendment to the New Jersey Public School Act of 1975 requires the testing of public school students to determine proficiency in the minimum basic skills of reading and mathematics, under the auspices of the New Jersey State Department of Education's Educational Assessment Program. To meet the mandates of this amendment, the…
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Equated Scores
Bartelo, Dennise M. – 1979
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a Maryland State Compensatory Reading Program at the middle school level. Specifically, the study attempted to determine the effects of silent reading practice on reading achievement and on student attitudes toward reading. Subjects were 74 sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Gittelman, Rachel; And Others – 1980
A study was conducted to investigate the effects of methylphenidate given in conjunction with reading remediation to children with pure reading disorders. A total of 66 children receiving motivated reading remediation were randomly assigned to either a placebo or a methylphenidate treatment group. A battery of reading, academic, and psychological…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Drug Therapy, Drug Use, Elementary Education
Bohuslov, Esther Buchanan – 1979
A study involving students in two English classes and two algebra classes at the College of Alameda was conducted to assess the correlation between a student's grade achievement and his/her ability to read at the level at which the course text was written. The Fry Readability Scale was used to determine the reading level of the course texts and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Algebra, College English, Community Colleges
Alaska State Dept. of Education, Juneau. – 1980
The results of the 1977 and 1979 Statewide Assessment Tests in Alaska are presented. This assessment testing is part of the testing component within the Alaska Statewide Instructional Support System (SISS), and is based on specific objectives critical to a student's academic success. Objectives covered are: mathematics computation, mathematics…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Schwartz, Robert M.; Stanovich, Keith E. – 1980
Two studies investigated the use of graphic and contextual information in word recognition, and the extent to which good and poor fourth grade readers were flexible in their ability to trade off one type of information for another as situations warranted. The subjects orally read stories containing ten altered words, with a single letter…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Grade 4
Coffman, William E.; Olsen, Scott A. – 1980
Measures of achievement in reading and mathematics following implementation of different curricular programs for disadvantaged pupils in the New Orleans system are compared. Programs implemented in Grades 4 through 7 include: (1) no compensatory programs; (2) traditional compensatory programs; (3) PLAN (Programmed Learning in Accordance with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Computer Managed Instruction
Mellichamp, Elliott McLett, Jr. – 1976
Forty-five sixth-grade students reading at least one year below expected levels participated in a study of the relationships among visual synthesis, oral synthesis, and reading achievement. Instruments constructed for the study included measures of visual synthesis, identification of individual printed syllables, and oral synthesis. Reading…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Hopkins, Carol J. – 1976
This study investigates oral language characteristics of 100 first-grade children to determine the relationship between selected measures of oral language and reading achievement at the end of first grade. Using the Stanford Achievement Test, Reading, the study shows statistically significant, but low, correlations existing between the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grade 1, Language Acquisition, Language Skills
Meyer, Jeanie Keeny; Levine, Daniel U. – 1978
The relationship between neighborhood characteristics and achievement level was investigated in six metropolitan schools, after accounting for neighborhood type. Neighborhoods were classified into four types: middle socioeconomic status white, low status white, middle status black, and low status black. Additional neighborhood…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Housing, Intermediate Grades, Metropolitan Areas
