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Goodacre, Elizabeth J., Comp.; Bentley, Diana, Comp. – 1977
Separate listings of both ongoing and completed reading research in Great Britain between 1974 and 1977--including relevant language studies and research on spelling--are arranged alphabetically by researcher, reporting the research title, the institution at which the research was conducted, the years started and completed, and the type of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Foreign Countries, Indexes, Language Research
Peer reviewedPeacock, Alan; Weedon, Helen – Research in Science and Technological Education, 2002
Details a study of students' text usage that used observations and interviews. Concludes that retrieval strategies are not transferred to learning from texts during science lessons. (Contains 41 references.) (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Chapman, L. John – 1982
A longitudinal survey that was part of a larger British research project on the perception of textual cohesion has yielded some insights into the reading problems of students on both sides of the primary/secondary school line. Subjects were 1,355 children, ages 8, 10, and 13. Two booklets for junior school and two for secondary school students…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
