Descriptor
| Grade 8 | 7 |
| Reading Research | 7 |
| Doctoral Dissertations | 4 |
| Junior High Schools | 3 |
| Secondary Education | 3 |
| Prose | 2 |
| Reading Ability | 2 |
| Reading Achievement | 2 |
| Reading Comprehension | 2 |
| Reading Materials | 2 |
| Academic Achievement | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
Author
| Brazee, Phyllis Ellen | 1 |
| Dea, Wendy Anne | 1 |
| Lathen, Levi | 1 |
| Pepe, Marie Hussey | 1 |
| Robertson, Victoria A. | 1 |
| Smith, Cyrus Findlay, Jr. | 1 |
| Spiegel, Dixie Lee | 1 |
Publication Type
| Dissertations/Theses | 7 |
| Reports - Research | 2 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Pepe, Marie Hussey – 1979
The Reading Comprehension and Spelling subtests of the Stanford Achievement Test were administered to 170 eighth grade students to test four null hypotheses about the differences between reading ability, spelling ability, and phonic generalization spelling errors. In addition, a specially constructed Phonics Generalization Spelling Test was…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Grade 8, Masters Theses
Smith, Cyrus Findlay, Jr. – 1976
In order to investigate the effect of experimenter-controlled reading speeds on the literal comprehension of multilevel reading passages and to assess the effects of operant-regulated, or self-regulated, conditions on reading speed, these two studies sampled a total of 400 eighth graders. Two passages, originally written at the eighth-grade level,…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 8, Operant Conditioning
Spiegel, Dixie Lee – 1976
This study investigated the effects of training in the use of advance organizers and interspersed questions on the comprehension and attitudes of good, average, and poor eighth-grade readers who were randomly assigned, by intact classroom units, to one of three treatment groups. The first treatment group received eight sessions of training in the…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Doctoral Dissertations, Factual Reading, Grade 8
Brazee, Phyllis Ellen – 1976
Quantitative and qualitative aspects of the reading of narrative and expository materials were studied in a sample of 47 eighth-grade students. Informal Reading Inventories were developed from narrative and expository materials in use in the students' school, as were longer narrative and expository passages for miscue analysis. Passages were…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Doctoral Dissertations, Expository Writing, Grade 8
Robertson, Victoria A. – 1989
A study examined whether a group of eighth graders whose teacher read orally to them for 10 minutes daily would develop greater interest in reading for pleasure than similar students who did not experience the teacher reading orally to them. Subjects, 36 urban and suburban youngsters, were divided into an experimental and a control sample.…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Independent Reading, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Lathen, Levi – 1976
Through the administration of standardized tests, questionnaires, and an inventory of educational progress designed to assess the application of skills, an effort is made to analyze the literacy, functional literacy, and factors related to achievement in a population of 181 eighth-grade students selected from an inner-city population and a…
Descriptors: Black Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Family Influence, Functional Literacy
Dea, Wendy Anne – 1978
Instruction in one eighth-grade history teacher's classes varied between use and nonuse of vocabulary recognition materials for difficult words to study the possible effect of such materials on test scores. The vocabulary recognition materials were used to augment four chapters of the history textbook that the students studied, while four chapters…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Content Area Reading, Grade 8, History Instruction
