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Best, Jane – 1978
A total of 99 students from a Toronto secondary vocational school participated in a study to determine whether students who studied retail merchandising differed significantly in comprehension and reading rate from students who did not study retail merchandising. An experimental group composed of 50 merchandising students and a control group of 49…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate, Reading Research