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Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P. – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1991
This study, involving 47 students in grades 2-10, investigated letter-naming speed to determine whether it measures cognitive speed, a theoretical factor that purportedly influences reading rate. It was determined that cognitive speed and cognitive power are two independent factors and that letter-naming speed can be used to measure cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Download full textWallace, William P. – 1983
To determine whether the impressive rates for speed reading (e.g., 500 words per minute) can be approximated in speed listening, two experiments compared the comprehension level of material heard at a normal speaking rate with that heard at accelerated rates. In the first experiment, the major demonstration experiment, three groups of college…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Training, Blindness, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedWolf, Maryanne; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Studies the development of word-retrieval speed and its relationship to reading in 72 average and 11 severely impaired readers in kindergarten through the second grade. (HOD)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
