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McCormick, Ida; and others – J Reading, 1969
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Disadvantaged, Grade 7, Junior High School Students
Hillerich, Robert L. – Elem Sch J, 1969
Descriptors: Language Skills, Learning Experience, Reading Achievement, Self Concept
Harman, Deborah L. – 1982
This study was undertaken in order to investigate the hypothesis that students who participated in extended-day kindergarten sessions would show more significant gains in achievement on the California Achievement Test (CAT) than those students who participated in half-day sessions. Sixty-six students attending extended-day kindergarten sessions…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Kindergarten Children, Mathematics Achievement, Primary Education
Download full textNeuman, Susan B. – 1981
A study examined the relationship between television viewing and reading behavior within a sample of 198 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students: specifically, whether the amount and specific content of television being viewed affected reading achievement and leisure reading patterns. Intelligence and reading achievement scores of each participant…
Descriptors: Children, Intermediate Grades, Media Research, Reading Achievement
SMITH, DONALD E.P.; AND OTHERS
THE WORK OUTPUT OF RETARDED READERS USING A PROGRAMED LITERACY CURRICULUM WAS OBSERVED UNDER VARIOUS CONDITIONS OF REINFORCEMENT IN A CONTROLLED CLASSROOM. TASK BEHAVIOR WAS FOLLOWED BY CONDITIONS OF NO CONSEQUENCE, TEACHER PRAISE, A WORK-BREAK CONSEQUENCE, A MONETARY CONSEQUENCE, AND FEEDBACK ON AMOUNT OF WORK RELATIVE TO PREVIOUS WORK. SIX…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Elementary Education, Motivation, Motivation Techniques
WOOD, FRANK H. – 1967
THIS INVESTIGATION FOCUSED ON THE USEFULNESS OF A PROCEDURE FOR OBTAINING MEASURES OF THE MOTIVATION OF FIRST-GRADE CHILDREN FROM LOW-INCOME FAMILIES TO ACHIEVE IN READING WHICH DID NOT REQUIRE WRITTEN OR ORAL VERBAL RESPONSES FROM THE SUBJECTS. MEASURES OF ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION WERE CORRELATED WITH TEACHER RATINGS OF EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE IN…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Grade 1, Inner City, Reading Achievement
Hoffman, James V.; O'Neal, Sharon F. – 1979
The hypothesis of this study was that reading rate would be relatively constant (within a 15% range of the subject's mean reading rate) both within and across different difficulty levels of materials as long as the levels of difficulty remained at or below the subject's ability level. The subjects were 65 college students whose reading levels…
Descriptors: College Students, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Readability
Rankin, Earl F.; Dale, Lothar H. – 1968
One hundred and seventy-four Texas Christian University developmental reading students participated in an investigation which applied the residual gain technique to individual reading gains as measured by the cloze procedure. Comparisons were made between cloze crude gains and cloze residual gains and between cloze tests constructed with lexical…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Cloze Procedure, Correlation, Individual Differences
Shnayer, Sidney W. – 1968
The relationships between reading interest and reading comprehension were studied through the performances of 578 sixth-grade students divided into seven ability groups. Each group was required to read material with readability scores two grades higher than the group's mean reading ability. They rated the selections according to degrees of…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Readability, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
Rupley, William H. – 1975
This paper argues that the first step in research aimed at identifying what constitutes the effective reading teacher should be the establishment of criteria which deals with effectiveness. A conceptual model is presented which could be used to identify the effective teacher. The focal point of the model is that effective reading instruction…
Descriptors: Models, Reading Achievement, Reading Research, Research Methodology
Strenecky, Bernard James – 1975
A sample of 79 first grade children, selected from a total sample of 350 subjects from an upper middle class school district, were involved in this study. The sample population was divided into three reading groups (depending on their reading scores) to permit statistical comparisons among groups with differentiated reading achievements. A battery…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Primary Education, Psycholinguistics
Guthrie, John T.; And Others – 1976
Data gathered by the Educational Testing Service from 57,694 children in 264 schools were reanalyzed using the instructional group as the unit of analysis. Second-grade and sixth-grade children were tested in the fall and spring with the Metropolitan Achievement Test and either the Cooperative Primary Test or the Sequential Test of Educational…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Difficulty
Curry, Robert L.; Geis, Lynna – 1976
A sample of 175 students, constituting grades 10, 11, and 12 of two high schools, was used in the validation of a new Syllabication Skills Test. On the first day, the students completed four forms of the syllabication test; on the second, they completed Survey F of the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests. Means and standard deviations were similar for…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Research, Reading Skills, Reading Tests
Mangieri, John N. – 1974
This paper discusses the role of the affective realm in the reading process. Its purposes are to provide some basic information about self-concept and to emphasize the prominent position which self-concept should occupy in teaching. The contents include a discussion of what self-concept is, of how self-concept is developed, and of the relationship…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement
Keiser, Ruth H. – 1971
The relationships between reading scores of seventh-grade readers and their scores on the Zaslow Concept Formation Test were studied. The Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test and Tests of General Ability scores were obtained from school records on 118 students of which 32 were considered high-scoring readers (upper 27 percent) and 32 low-scoring readers…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Correlation, Grade 7, Reading Ability
