The rationale for the development of the Primary Pupil Reading Attitude Inventory is presented. The process of developing, using, and subsequently revising the instrument is described. Findings from additional studies are then presented to provide further information about subtest and item characteristics of the instrument. Appendices contain…

White students in predominantly middle-class schools in Fairfax County, Virginia, who had used "Science - A Process Approach" in grades one through three, and students in an unidentified control group, were administered tests of intelligence, reading achievement, arithmetic achievement, and interest in science. The following significant…

Teachers should analyze the validity of those assumptions upon which schools operate. The premise that urban schools exist to teach children the three R's seems inaccurate in the face of evidence that many low income and minority group children are not reading at acceptable grade levels. The appropriateness of the medical diagnostic model in an…

A program under a performance contract in a Westland, Mich., elementary school designed to improve reading and learning abilities was studied. In a highly mobile community of 75 per cent Appalachian background and generally low level of education, 70-80 per cent of the children tested below grade level on standardized tests. The program had two…

The Michigan Migrant Education Program was evaluated to determine at a statewide level the extent to which the general educational objectives are being attained. The study focused on 2 objectives: (1) to determine pupil changes in self-concept, attitude toward school, and reading achievement and (2) to determine aspects of the migrant education…

This paper reports an evaluation of a performance contract in reading with 2,500 seventh-grade students. Seventy-five percent of the students were to increase their reading speed five times over their beginning level with ten percent more comprehension after three months of instruction. Results indicated that only thirteen percent of the students…

This study measured the effectiveness of mothers conducting a structured visual perception program with their children under the training and direction of the investigator. The subjects were four- and five-year-old children in an inner-city school district who were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups and tested on the Frostig…

The National Assessment of Reading was not based on any one particular approach to the subject of reading. Its primary assumption was that information would help anyone who is interested in reading--regardless of his approach to the subject--determine for himself how well Americans read. The results of this assessment are reported according to a…

The purpose of this study was to determine if measures of first grade readiness, scholastic aptitude, and reading achievement were significant predictors of third grade reading achievement for Mexican-American students from two lower socioeconomic levels. The sample included 94 third grade students for whom the following measurements had been…

This report supplements the first South East Education Development project (SEED) on first grade children. Full and partial records of 624 second grade students and 591 third grade students are the basis of this diagnostic review. The empirical data obtained for the SEED project students included: each student's sex and number of full days in…

A course in teaching reading designed for prospective English teachers is described. The first activity of the course is a study of statistics concerning reading achievement on local, state, and national levels. Students in the course are urged to visit their own high schools or local schools as individual projects for studying reading achievement…

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VISUAL DEFICITS AND ACHIEVEMENT WAS STUDIED. PARTIALLY SEEING CHILDREN (424) FROM THE FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADES WERE ADMINISTERED FIVE EQUIVALENT FORMS OF A STANDARDIZED TEST CONTAINING SCHOOL-LIKE READING TASKS. A LATIN SQUARE DESIGN WAS USED TO SPREAD THE EFFECTS OF TEACHERS' SKILL IN TEST ADMINISTRATION, PRACTICE, LEVELS…

THE RELATIONSHIP OF AUDITORY-VISUAL AND TACTUAL-VISUAL INTEGRATION TO INTELLIGENCE AND READING ACHIEVEMENT WAS INVESTIGATED. IN ADDITION, THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE TWO INTERSENSORY INTEGRATION TASKS TO EACH OTHER AND TO THE TYPE OF READING ERRORS MADE ON AN ORAL DIAGNOSTIC READING TEST WAS ALSO EXPLORED. THE SAMPLE WAS COMPOSED OF 121 WHITE…

Project READ (Reading Efficiency and Delinquency) during its first year involved 4,330 juveniles in 47 states and the District of Columbia. Designed to improve the reading ability of incarcerated juvenile offenders, the program was based on two important facts. A survey of correctional institutions during 1974 assessed the reading abilities of…

Previous research has indicated that children comprehend more of material of high interest than material of low interest, when each child is given a mixture of both types. In the present study of fifth-grade children, each child received either all high-interest material or all low-interest material. Interests were assessed using a picture-rating…