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Download full textTakahashi, Barbara L. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of ninth-grade slow readers with ninth-grade good readers and with sixth grade readers on a test of syntactic comprehension. The significant difference between the ninth-grade good readers' and the ninth-grade slow readers' performance on A Test of Sentence Meaning (ATSM), developed by…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Reading, Reading Comprehension
Canter, Andrea Sherril – 1975
This study investigated the developmental relationships between a battery of cognitive tasks--including Piagetian operations of conservation, classification, and seriation--and early reading achievement. Subjects were 128 kindergarten through third-grade students at a suburban elementary school. They were administered a battery of cognitive tests…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations, Early Reading, Primary Education
Deck, Dennis Dorian – 1975
Word-deletion items to be used as measures of comprehension were constructed by deleting a content word from an ambiguous target sentence constrained by an accompanying context sentence. One hundred twenty, third-grade students and 120 sixth-grade students each completed all of the items as one of three degrees of contextual constraint. Analysis…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
