An air temperature of 68 to 74 degrees Fahrenheit is ideal for most learning situations, particularly in reading and mathematics. (Author/MLF)

The study was designed to determine the effectiveness of a teacher education program using empirical measures to detect changes in tutees' attitude toward reading, selected personality factors, and reading achievement during the tutoring period. (Author)

Twenty high school seniors from a psychology class were used to tutor 20 primary grade pupils. (NQ)

A look at some of the special educational problems related to teaching inner-city children and at how one school approaches these problems. (AK)

Illustrates a compromise between vertical and horizontal typographies which should make speed reading faster and more reliable, and suggests that computers could prepare text according to this arrangement. (MB)

Study of 366 sixth-grade children of enlisted Air Force personnel showed that mobility had no adverse effect on their reading achievement and, on the contrary, may have contributed to their reading proficiency. (NH)

Measures the effects of tape recordings alone, tape recordings and printed texts, and printed texts alone on the comprehension, oral reading, and vocabulary abilities of eighth-grade students and reports no significant differences with any method. Bibliography. (MD)

Reviews results of previous studies and describes projected studies designed to suggest input variables related to reading and to provide further knowledge of phoneme-grapheme relationships in reading. Bibliography. (MD)

The purpose of this study was to investigate first-grade children's use of requests and responses in their homogeneous reading groups. The results showed that ability groups differed in their use of requests and responses, and that particular aspects of requests predicted obtaining appropriate responses, which were almost always "on-task."…

Prior to 1975, students in Chicago Public Schools were assigned grade level tests, a practice that in 1974 resulted in 42 percent of the students scoring at the equivalent of a "chance" level. In 1975, the schools switched to functioning level testing. The change caused lower average test scores, but the percentage of chance scores…

Describes a reading battery that was assembled to advance study and definitions of reading maturity. Factor analysis shows the battery to have greater implicit construct similarity to a popular taxonomy and diagnostic system than conventional measures typically address. (FL)