A study of teacher perceptions of student ability as related to first grade reading achievement examined the notions that teacher expectancy does affect the performance of pupils and that teacher expectations are influenced by the sex of the pupil. Female first grade teachers (N=11) in a suburban school provided estimates of the IQ (MIQ) of each…

This annotated bibliography offers representative works from material for the development of teachers and children. It is organized under several categories significant to the teacher in the reading curricular sphere. The whole area of reading instruction is given attention as is the role of language development as an influence upon reading.…

Three items are described in this paper: the individual difference variable of cognitive style, research which has implicated cognitive style and reading achievement, and beginning reading research which uses cognitive style as a dependent variable. The contents include "Cognitive Style," which discusses research related to defining cognitive…

Reviewed in this paper are some of the aspects of Australian practices and research activities in learning disabilities conducted over the past decade. Special emphasis is given to the diagnosis and treatment of children with severe reading problems. The influence of instruments such as the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities on the…

This current annual report describes the progress made in the following aspects of the organizational plan; the identification of a model of reading which includes a description of subskills that may be present in skilled readers and are acquired by most normal readers, the construction of criterion referenced tests to measure each of these…

This paper details the development and implementation of a feedback system designed to provide information to various strata of decision makers. Data were collected in each of eight city districts in the following areas of reading achievement: mastery of upper and lower case letters, mastery of phonic skills, level of sight vocabulary and…

This book is concerned with the skill of learning to read and factors primarily related to teaching the beginning reading skills. The contents include: "Rationale," which discusses abilities related to reading, reading as a different medium, decoding coming before reading, decoding as separate from reading, hypotheses for decoding, and a…

This collection of appendices to the "Evaluation of School-Based Right to Read Sites" includes "Evaluation of Right to Read Materials," which presents an overview and discusses the evaluation procedure and evaluation results; "Instruments," which includes mail-out materials and regional conference materials;…

The problem investigated in this study was whether a significant difference in reading achievement on criterion-referenced measures could be obtained from two groups of semi-literate adolescents using a common program of reading instruction made available to one group in a programed text and to the other through a computer-based display unit. Two…

The purpose of this study was to determine if an organizer improved the understanding and retention of what was read, and, if so, to determine if the placement of the organizer significantly affected the resulting performance. The organizer was a 125-word paragraph which provided the reader with a generalized overview of the reading material and…

This study was designed to determine the effects of test anxiety level and defensiveness (lie scale) level on reading comprehension of fourth grade boys as measured by the cloze procedure. The subjects, 253 male fourth graders, were administered Sarason's Test Anxiety Scale for Children and the lie scale of the General Anxiety Scale for Children.…

This annotated bibliography offers representative works from material for the development of teachers and children. It is organized under several categories significant to the teacher in the reading curricular sphere. The whole area of reading instruction is given attention as is the role of language development as an influence upon reading.…

It was the purpose of this study to investigate the effects of a specific type of visual perception training on the reading achievement of first grade children diagnosed as being deficient in visual perceptual skills by the Children's Perceptual Achievement Forms Test. The study included 96 subjects from 17 classrooms in three elementary schools…

This study on reading comprehension was part of a total program in which testing was also conducted in science, literature, civic education, and English and French as foreign languages at three levels--ten year olds, fourteen year olds, and those in the final year of secondary education--in fifteen countries. Two chapters describe the instruments…

The relationship between specific inference as measured by a Cloze Test and broad inference as measured by a Means-End Test was investigated. Subjects were 61 New York policemen enrolled in a communication skills course at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The relationship between specific inference and broad inference, specific inference and…