This bulletin presents news and opinions of the staff of Project Brave of the St. John Valley in northern Maine. Included in this issue are the results of reading tests, the aims of bilingual education, a report on a slide series related to life in the St. John Valley, and many photographs of activities at Project Brave. The text is in English and…

Analysis of behaviorally expressed instructional objectives, materials, and criterion test items in reading has generated a finite list of operations and conditions that cover almost all possible reading activities and behaviors. The list has been organized into a short, simple Code Key. A 15-cell computerized syntax has been designed to carry the…

The purpose of this study was to obtain a measure of the reliability of the informal reading inventory (IRI) when administered to selected sixth grade students. Houghton Mifflin's Pupil Placement Tests were administered to 36 sixth grade girls. The raw scores of the students on the pupil Placement Tests were divided into two equivalent halves, and…

Designed to measure the ability of children to identify the meanings of structurally ambiguous or unambiguous sentences of English, the test consists of forty lead sentences: ten with surface structure ambiguity, ten with underlying structure ambiguity, and twenty which are unambiguous. For each of the lead sentences three interpretative sentences…

Designed to measure the normal development of several of the elemental skills which children must acquire if they are to become skilled readers, this study involved the design and testing of batteries of tests to measure the various reading subskills identified. The battery consists of the following tests: visual, auditory, audiovisual,…

Designed to enable classroom teachers to screen an entire classroom of children simultaneously for visual processing skills, this test uses a four-page answer booklet and nine 35mm slides, and it includes activities for both near- and far-point visual skills. The test is used only for gross measurement, and a child who makes a low score would be…

The outcomes of an inservice program to effect a positive change in attitude of teachers toward the specific reading problems of individual children are described. It was hypothesized that an awareness of isolated information would help develop the professional sophistication commensurate with the expected quality of teaching which was to be…

Two reports supplementing the product evaluation of the Learning Booth are presented. The first, "Learing Booth Performance and Subsequent Reading Ability," by N. F. Rayder, examines the relationship between the Learning Booth experience and reading. To do this, readingscores for 65 first-grade Follow Through children were compared with their…

The establishment of an open admissions policy necessitated an evaluative procedure to identify groups requiring remedial instruction and to assist in estimating budgeting and staffing needs. This study was undertaken, therefore, to select tests in reading and mathematics which would: (1) discriminate adequately between non-college and college…

To determine if student placement in community colleges' programs of study and courses could be improved if objective information relating to the reading requirements of each course were related to the student's measured reading ability, an investigation was carried out at Rockland Community College. The Nelson-Denny Reading Test was administered…

Prose passages read aloud or silently were rated for pronounceability and comprehensibility. The relationships of text-derived readability indices to reading rate, comprehensibility ratings and comprehension test scores were explored. Reading rate in syllables per minute was unrelated to readability. The high correlation between rate in words per…

"A Newspaper in My Classroom" project was conducted by a Grade 5 teacher with her class for four months. During the project, the newspaper supplemented the regular textbooks for language arts. Exposure to the project did not result in perceptible differences in performance on a semantic differential containing seven concepts or on the…

The Distar I Reading, Language and Arithmetic programs were used with two first grade classes. The Distar II programs were used with two second grade classes. One first grade Distar class appeared to make some progress in oral language. Comparison of the first grade Distar classes with a first grade control class that used a Scott-Foresman basal…

The progress of several projects defining and measuring adult literacy is reported in this publication of the National Reading Center. A summary description of the basic approach of the project is given, rather than a digest of findings. Among the studies reported on are the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in reading, the Adult…

This study by Louis Harris and Associates was designed to determine the percentage of Americans lacking the functional or practical reading skills necessary to survive in this country. A test on reading and filling out application forms indicated that from 4.3 million to 18.5 million Americans are functionally illiterate. The average range of…