This paper discusses the dichotomy between continually moving eyes and the lack of blurred visual experience. A discontinuous model of visual perception is proposed, with the discontinuities being phase and temporally related to saccadic eye movements. It is further proposed that deviant duration and angular velocity characteristics of saccades in…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether there were any differences between the responses made by selected college students to information presented in a visual context and to the same basic information presented in a verbal context. Selected college students were asked to respond to pictorial information and to the same basic…

A preliminary study is reported which attempted to define gifted rapid readers, authenticate the performances of three subjects who were designated as gifted rapid readers, and explore the relationship of a subject's ability to perceive print eidetically and to read and/or skim. Volunteer subjects were a 15-year-old girl from the Philippines, a…

This study covers a program of research on problems in the area of reading undertaken and supported by the U. S. Office of Education. Due to the effectiveness of the Convergence Technique in the planning and management of complex programs of bio-medical research, this project is undertaken to develop plans for the application of this technique in…

The full texts of invitational addresses given at the 1965 International Reading Association (IRA) Convention in Detroit, Michigan, by six recipients of IRA citation awards are presented. Gates suggests steps IRA should take to revive and redirect reading research. McCallister discusses the implications of the changing and expanding vocabulary of…

An integral dimension in the concept of flexible efficient reading is the process of skimming, which is defined as the reading behavior in which information is processed without looking at all or most of the words in continuous printed discourse. Measurement of flexible reading efficiency presents problems which revolve around four major issues.…

This review of the history of the measurement of reading comprehension follows the development of formal and informal reading comprehension tests dating from 1913 to the present. Upon reviewing the aspects, procedures, and criteria of these tests, the author noted that most of these tests resembled group verbal intelligence tests. Makeup of the…

This study was designed to explicate the nature of the processes utilized by students when learning from textual materials when the text has been augmented by interspersing questions at various points. Sixty undergraduate students were randomly assigned to one of six treatment groups. The experimental treatments were: (1) questions shortly before,…

General comparisons are made between American and British reading instruction, and outstanding commonalities and differences between the two countries are emphasized. Both, for example, believe in the necessity for careful early instruction, and both believe in the importance of reading as a skill. Differences exist in attitudes toward learning to…

THE RESEARCH CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT INCLUDED TWO STUDIES--(1) OPERANT PREFERENCE FOR RATE OF NARRATION AND (2) ORAL READING, SILENT READING, AND SPEAKING RATES. THE FIRST STUDY WAS BASED ON A DOCTORAL DISSERTATION FOR WHICH OPERANT-CONDITIONING TECHNIQUES AND CONJUGATE REINFORCEMENT WERE APPLIED IN RECORDING PREFERENCES FOR NARRATIVE RATE. THE…

A LINGUISTIC MODEL WAS DEVELOPED FOR RELATING SPELLING TO SOUND AND TO EXPLORE THOSE FACETS OF ENGLISH ORTHOGRAPHY WHICH MIGHT RELATE TO THE READING PROCESS. A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE BASIS OF THE ORTHOGRAPHY WAS MADE WHICH INCLUDED DISCUSSIONS OF THE GRAPHEME-PHONEME PARALLEL, RELATIONAL UNITS, MARKERS, AND GRAPHEMIC ALTERNATIONS. REVISIONS AND…

This report provides an overview of concept and principle-learning studies and traces the theoretical basis for schema theory, which asserts that all knowledge is assimilated into a general cognitive framework. The procedures of an original study are described, which was designed to test the hypothesis that the inclusion of a "domain…

Four experiments were conducted to determine whether staging, or the prominence given to various segments of information through manipulation of prose structure, affects recall of the content of prose passages. In all of the experiments, pairs of passages were used in which members of each pair had identical content but different staging patterns.…

The effects of subject-generated and experimenter-provided verbal and pictorial elaboration on memory of prose were investigated in a sample of 192 fifth-grade pupils. Based on scores obtained from standardized reading tests, pupils were divided into those above, and those below, grade level. Each child read a social studies textbook passage under…

The prediction that utilization of contextual information will be reduced by the presentation of secondary tasks requiring attention was studied. The importance of a limited-capacity operational memory for reading performance was discussed. (BJG)