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PDF pending restorationRoberts, Wesley K.; Stone, David R. – 1977
Paul Hanna (1966), in his classic spelling study, developed frequency tables that described the relative frequency of the letters (graphemes) used to represent the major English sounds (phonemes). By restructuring the Hanna tables, a set of tables may be developed for estimating levels of reading difficulty based upon the relative frequency of the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Primary Education
Moore, Carlos William – 1976
Four hundred fifty subjects at Texas A&M University provided data, through self-administered questionnaires, to evaluate the influence on readers of qualifying statements regarding technical performance claims in magazine advertisements. Each respondent was exposed to a single treatment by viewing one of 30 versions of mock magazine…
Descriptors: Advertising, College Students, Credibility, Doctoral Dissertations
Download full textOddie, Lily; Osborne, John W. – 1977
This study was primarily intended to explain the relationship between rated imagery, rated comprehension, and free recall in a sentence context. An additional purpose of the investigation was to examine the relationships between sentence imagery (determined by summing the individual values of component words), the rating of sentences as wholes,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Imagery, Measurement Techniques, Reading Comprehension
Bawden, Robert; Duffy, Gerald G. – 1979
Focusing on the way teachers conceptualize reading and on whether these conceptions influence instructional practice, a study was undertaken utilizing a propositional inventory and a naturalistic field study. The propositional inventory was used in two teacher surveys: the first included 602 teachers and sought to determine their conceptions of…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Demography, Reading, Reading Instruction
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
Polk, Jacqueline K. – 1979
Samples of government publications, legal documents, newspapers, paperback novels, and instruction manuals were among the items used in a study to determine the degree to which the readability levels of materials used by adults reflect an awareness of and adjustment to the average reading ability of the adult population. The readability levels of…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Masters Theses, Readability
Royer, James M.; And Others – 1979
Two studies were conducted to assess whether a sentence verification technique for measuring reading comprehension was sensitive to reading difficulty of text. A total of 96 students in grades four through six read text passages two grade levels below reading level, at reading level, and two grade levels above reading level and then judged whether…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Measurement Techniques, Reading Comprehension, Reading Diagnosis
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
Alessi, Stephen M.; And Others – 1979
This study investigated the effects of looking back at relevant sections of previously read text, a strategy that is frequently proposed as useful when comprehension fails while studying a text. The subjects, more than 100 freshmen, read 24 pages of text and answered inserted comprehension questions. Approximately half of the subjects were…
Descriptors: College Students, Eye Movements, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension
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)
Spache, George D. – 1968
College-adult reading research trends are discussed. The reading process; the influence of vision, perception, and personality; and program outcomes are noted as major trends of past studies, and a list of mistaken assumptions in these earlier studies is given. Present research shifts to the study of the role of both teacher and student…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Counseling
Summers, Edward G., Comp. – 1969
A listing of 344 dissertations completed in colleges and universities since 1966 in the areas of preschool, elementary, secondary, college, and adult reading is reported. Volumes 27 and 28 of "Dissertation Abstracts" were reviewed, and dissertations on reading were noted. A comprehensive, analytical abstract was prepared by professionals in…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Colleges
RIGGS, CORINNE W. – 1968
THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON BIBLIOTHERAPY IS COMPOSED OF 138 CITATIONS RANGING IN DATE FROM 1936 TO 1967. IT IS DESIGNED TO AID TEACHERS AND LIBRARIANS IN MODIFYING THE ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR OF BOYS AND GIRLS. ITS LISTINGS ARE ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY ACCORDING TO AUTHOR UNDER THE GENERAL DIVISIONS OF BOOKS, PERIODICALS, AND UNPUBLISHED…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliotherapy, Reading Materials, Reading Research
Elkind, David; Deblinger, Jo Ann – 1968
The theoretical orientation based on perceptual development, proposed by Piaget in 1961, is the starting point of this investigation. According to Piaget, the perception of the young child is "centered" on dominant aspects of the field. With maturity, perception becomes "decentered" and progressively freed from the field. The…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 2, Nonverbal Learning, Reading Comprehension
