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COHEN, S. ALAN – 1963
SHORT ANSWERS ARE GIVEN TO QUESTIONS ASKED ABOUT GENERAL FINDINGS IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, BASED ON EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE COLLECTED IN RESEARCH THESES AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY. EIGHT QUESTION AREAS DEAL WITH STUDENTS IN GRADES 4-6. READING, BOTH ORAL AND SILENT, WORD ANALYSIS AND SPELLING, CHILDREN'S INTEREST AND PREFERENCES, VOCABULARY, MENTAL IMAGERY,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Primary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement
KOEHLER, WARREN B. – 1960
EFFORTS TO LEARN HOW THE ARRANGEMENTS OF THE PRINTED TEXT AFFECTS READING EFFICIENCY WERE SUMMARIZED. SEVERAL ASSUMPTIONS WERE BASIC. FIRST, ONE OF THE PURPOSES IS DEFINED AS INVESTIGATION OF ANY IDEA WHICH MIGHT LEAD TO RAISING THE EDUCATIONAL LEVEL. SECOND, IT IS ASSUMED THAT THE DISCOVERY OF A MEANS OF RAISING THE LEVEL OF READING COMPREHENSION…
Descriptors: Publications, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
GUNDERSON, DORIS V. – 1964
RESEARCH IS COMPILED ON THE TOPIC OF READING READINESS. NUMEROUS RESEARCH STUDIES HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT CHILDREN VARY GREATLY IN THE DEGREE TO WHICH THEY POSSESS "READING READINESS" AND THAT CHILDREN ARE DEFINITELY AIDED BY A READING READINESS PROGRAM. DISAGREEMENT EXISTS AMONG READING AUTHORITIES ON CERTAIN ASPECTS OF READINESS. AREAS…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Reading, Reading Development, Reading Instruction
Download full textBIEMILLER, ANDREW J.; LEVIN, HARRY – 1965
VERBAL REACTION TIMES TO WORD FORMS THAT DIFFER IN THEIR PRONOUNCEABILITY WERE ASSESSED FOR SIGNFICANCE OF CORRELATION. SINGLE PSEUDOWORDS OF VARYING PRONOUNCEABILITY WERE SHOWN TO 36 THIRD AND FOURTH GRADERS, AND THEIR REACTION TIMES FOR ORAL RESPONSES WERE MEASURED. THE RESPONSES WERE TAPE RECORDED, AND THE PERIOD OF TIME FROM THE EXPOSURE OF…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 4, Language Skills, Measurement Techniques
ROBINSON, HELEN M. – 1964
SIXTEEN MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN ENGLISH MET FOR A 3-DAY CONFERENCE TO PLAN COOPERATIVE FIRST-GRADE STUDIES FOR 1964-65. CONSULTANTS IN RESEARCH DESIGN, EVALUATION, AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS WERE PROVIDED FOR SUBGROUPS WORKING ON SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS. SMALL SUBGROUPS PREPARED RECOMMENDATIONS WHICH WERE UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED…
Descriptors: Conferences, Consultants, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
Greenlaw, M. Jean; Kurth, Ruth Justine – 1980
A study was conducted to determine whether a particular definition or definitions of reading comprehension were widely held by teachers at the elementary and secondary school levels. One hundred forty-seven teachers responded to a questionnaire ranking eight definitions of reading comprehension from most agreeable to least agreeable. The…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Lesgold, Alan M.; Perfetti, Charles A. – 1980
Much of the current research in reading processes has been aided by movements in experimental psychology known as information processing psychology, cognitive psychology, and cognitive science. The information processing movement has contributed three important ideas: (1) Logogen theory of a cognitive response unit that is sensitive to the set of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Epistemology, Language Processing, Learning Theories
Taylor, Elizabeth – 1980
A study was designed to discover whether readers use simple story grammar categories (setting, beginning, development, and conclusion) to organize the propositions of a story. Nineteen proficient readers were given a list of randomly ordered propositions that made up a simple story structure. Each reader was instructed to group the propositions…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Organization
Fry, Edward – 1980
Modern reading theories that are concerned with the reading process of either mature or immature readers show no clearcut concern with unit size. The various graphic units that are encountered by the reader include letters, graphemes, clusters (such as blends), syllables, phonograms, affixes and roots, words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs,…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Models, Reading Processes, Reading Research
Brewer, William F.; Lichtenstein, Edward H. – 1980
An experiment was carried out to examine individual story schemata and a story theory. The theory proposed relating structural characteristics of narratives to the reader's affective response and the reader's intuitions about what constitutes a story. Two levels of narrative structure are distinguished by the theory: the chronological sequence of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation, Discourse Analysis
Kurth, Ruth Justine; Greenlaw, M. Jean – 1980
A study was undertaken to describe the comprehension instruction that occurs during formal reading classes in elementary schools. Sixteen kindergarten through sixth grade teachers were observed during 48 hours of reading instruction over a three-day period. Nine specific categories of comprehension and six general categories of reading instruction…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Observation
Hecker, Nelly M.; Jerrolds, Bob W. – 1979
A study was conducted to determine the effect of using a space test (marking word boundaries, a task involving setting aside words from the context of a sentence) as a measure of reading ability. Subjects in the study were 138 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students. The students were randomly divided into two groups so that one group completed…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories
Hecker, Nelly M.; And Others – 1980
This study was designed to investigate further the validity of using a space test (marking word boundaries, a task involving setting aside words from the context of a sentence) as a measure of reading comprehension. Specifically, the purposes of this investigation were to compare student performance on a space test to their performance on a cloze…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories
Williamson, Leon E.; And Others – 1980
A study investigated the reading responses of 60 eighth grade students to encoded inflectional, syntactic, grammatical, and semantic errors. The students were equally divided into three categories based on grade level reading competency and given three Aesopian fables to read. The text of the fables contained the following errors: (1) words to…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Grade 8, Miscue Analysis, Reading Research
Otto, Wayne; And Others – 1980
This paper describes a research and development center's project to design procedures for helping students both to develop and to apply effective behaviors for understanding text. The project's developmental efforts are summarized and promising directions for future work are examined. Specifically, the paper (1) clarifies the goals of the project,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Program Descriptions, Reading Comprehension
