This report evaluated the Advanced Reading Development Program designed to enrich reading instruction for 360 junior high school students in New York City who were reading two or more years below grade level. Students received individualized reading instruction for four forty-five minute periods per week. Students were pre tested in October, 1975…

Two measures of locus of control, J.B. Rotter's I-E Scale and H. Levenson's I, P, and C Scales, were correlated with two independent measures of reading achievement in a sample of 100 college freshmen enrolled in a reading improvement program. The Rotter I-E Scale produced no significant relationships to any measure of reading achievement.…

This report presents the results of a survey of the reading attainment of 11- and 15-year-olds in Northern Ireland during 1972. NS6, a reading test consisting of 60 sentence-completion items arranged in increasing order of difficulty, was administered to 1546 11-year-olds and 1487 15-year-olds. Among the findings were that such differences as…

On the assumption that the absence of remedial students in the classroom permits enriched instruction to take place, this study examined the reading achievement gains of those first graders who remain in the classroom while their project-eligible classmates leave for reading instruction. Metropolitan Readiness Test stanine scores were used for…

A major objective of this three year national Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) study was to evaluate the impact of ESAA programs by comparing schools that received ESAA funds with those that did not. Student growth in reading and mathematics were compared. To identify what kinds of schools (what allocations of resources, and what types of…

The judgment of whether or not a city's Title I reading program is a success is dependent upon the length of time used in the evaluation. This study's findings that estimates of achievement rates and judgments of success were dramatically affected by the length of time used in the evaluation was consistent across all the compensatory education…

Progress in a primary-grade reading program was determined for 106 first-born, second-grade students at the end of the school year. Previous data available for this sample included Thomas-Chase-Birch temperament ratings, family intactness and socioeconomic status at age four, and Metropolitan Readiness Test scores at age six. The value of these…

This paper develops a rationale for a three dimensional model of nonintellectual behavior of children and supports the rationale with a review of relevant theoretical and empirical work. The tenability of the model and its relationship to early reading achievement is then explored. Dimensions derived from a cluster analysis of the "Pupil Behavior…

Middle-class Caucasian children in grades 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 were examined to determine the effect of sex role standards on reading and arithmetic achievement. Results indicated agreement between the sexes on perceptions of what constituted girls' activities and disagreement on perceptions of what constituted boys' activities. Sex role…

A behavioral domain is well-defined when it is clear to both test developers and test users which categories of performance should or should not be considered for potential test items. Only those tests that are keyed to well-defined domains meet the definition of criterion-referenced tests. The greatest proliferation of criterion-referenced tests…

A study was conducted (1) to examine the effects of the same reading materials on different individuals and the effects of different reading materials on the same person and (2) to explore whether an individual's preferred pattern of response to a literary selection was related to differences in sex, reading ability, and learning style. Subjects…

The edumetric adequacy of curriculum-based reading measures were examined for two basal reading programs. On the basis of reading aloud performance, 91 elementary students were assigned seven instructional placement scores within each basal series. Students also were measured on standardized reading achievement tests. Generally, correlations…