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Download full textAsher, Steven R. – 1977
After reviewing the evidence that boys in American elementary schools are far more likely than girls to have serious reading problems, this report considers two lines of investigation into this discrepancy. The first line of investigation is based on the hypothesis that the predominance of female teachers in elementary schools is responsible for…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Literature Reviews, Performance Factors, Reading Achievement
Venezky, Richard L.; Winfield, Linda F. – 1979
Several elementary schools that drew their students from low socioeconomic (SES) areas and which succeeded in teaching reading were studied to determine the main causes of their academic achievements. Interviews, analyses of test scores and work logs, classroom observation, and reviews of school memos indicated two primary causes of success:…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Change Agents, Change Strategies
DeVito, Pasquale J.; Rubinstein, Sherry S. – 1977
Highlights of a followup study involving 1,179 remedial reading students in Rhode Island, grades 2 and 4, were examined. Since the study focused on determining the effect of Title I programs beyond one school year, the sample included students who did and did not continue to receive Title I services. It was not possible to determine whether each…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Followup Studies
ELLINGER, BERNICE D.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPED A CRITICAL READING TEST AS PART OF THE 3-YEAR USOE PROJECT 2612 CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE WHETHER CRITICAL READING COULD BE TAUGHT TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN. THE TEST AIMS TO MEASURE THE ANALYTIC AND EVALUATIVE ABILITIES OF CHILDREN IN REACTING CRITICALLY TO MATERIALS READ. CRITICAL READING SKILLS WERE…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Critical Reading, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Education
FARR, ROGER – 1968
TESTS SHOULD BE CAREFULLY EXAMINED IF TEACHING OBJECTIVES ARE TO MATCH TEST OBJECTIVES. TEACHERS SHOULD BECOME MORE PROFICIENT IN THE BROADER ASPECTS OF EVALUATING READING PERFORMANCE AND SHOULD EMPLOY A WIDER VARIETY OF EVALUATION TECHNIQUES. THE USE OF STANDARDIZED READING TESTS AS INDICATORS OF INSTRUCTIONAL READING LEVEL SHOULD BE ABANDONED.…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Informal Reading Inventories, Measurement Objectives
Silberberg, Norman E.; And Others – 1968
This research was done to determine whether formal kindergarten training in alphabet and number names would result in a higher reading level for children at the end of grade 1. As part of an earlier research project, two classes of primarily middle-class kindergarten children received 8 weeks of training in alphabet and number names. Two control…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Predictive Measurement
Gray, David – 1968
A basic skills program designed for first- to sixth-grade students who were underachieving in reading or arithmetic was evaluated. The program was designed to raise the students' levels of achievement and to improve their attitudes toward learning. A staff development program designed to introduce teachers to new methods of teaching basic skills,…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Basic Skills, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Education
Los Angeles Unified School District, CA. – 1968
Los Angeles Unified School District secondary school activities funded during 1967-68 under Title I/ESEA are evaluated in this volume. Selected public and nonpublic schools served pupils through 32 activities in achievement (reading and other communicative skills), counseling (attitude and self-image improvement), fine arts (music and art), and…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Counseling, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
Kling, Martin – 1967
A description and evaluation of the educational achievement of Job Corps trainees at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, during a 3-month period are given. Related literature is reviewed. Criteria fo" choosing camp enrollees are stated, and a comparison i s made of the Kilmer Corpsmen and Corpsmen throughout the country which shows Kilmer's to be…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Legislation
White, Hazel L.; Mouw, John T. – 1976
This study examined the effects of the need to achieve, as measured by a behavioral checklist, on reading achievement. Subjects were 96 students enrolled in a southwestern Mississippi school district; 32 students were randomly selected from each of the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. Each subject was then tested in reading achievement, IQ, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Educational Research, Intelligence Quotient, Intermediate Grades
Hutson, Barbara A.; Liebermann, Jo – 1978
In an examination of the relationship between language skill and reading achievement in adults, measures of syntactic knowledge and reading achievement were obtained for 41 students in an adult basic education center. Moderate correlations were found for language skill and reading achievement, with students reading at or below the fourth grade…
Descriptors: Adults, Educationally Disadvantaged, Language Skills, Predictor Variables
Treiman, Joan Little – 1975
The purpose of this paper was to test the hypothesis set forth by Farnham-Diggory (1967) and Denner (1970) that problem readers lack representational and syntactic competence. A random sample of 72 first graders, stratified by sex and social class, was given the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test and the Farnham-Diggory tasks. An analysis of variance…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
Kuntz, Mildred H. – 1975
This study was designed to investigate the relationship between reading achievement and syntactic attainment. Two measures were used to provide the data: the Gates MacGinitie Reading Test, Survey E, and the Sentence Construction Test, Level E. The measures of reading and syntax were administered to 96 seventh-grade students in two suburban junior…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Junior High Schools, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
Hendon, Carl Adriel – 1975
The purpose of this study was to compare student reading and vocabulary achievement of classes using a standard basal-reading series with the achievement of a class using the same standard basal-reading series and a computer-managed, teacher-support system in reading. The reading and vocabulary achievement growth of a sample of 40 classes of…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
Stallings, Jane – 1975
Relationships between first and third grade classroom instructional practices and child outcomes (i.e. test scores, days absent, and observed child behavior) were assessed in seven Project Follow Through educational programs. The programs chosen represented a wide spectrum of innovative educational theories. The range included two models based on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques
