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Download full textZanowicz, Michele – 1996
A study examined a reading strategy--story retelling--to determine whether it would enhance comprehension, vocabulary, and develop a sense of competency in students who lacked reading strategies. Subjects of the study were 10 learning disabled children, ages 12-14. The study was conducted over an 8-week period. Two samples were created using…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Learning Disabilities, Learning Processes, Reading Achievement
Albero, Paula; Brown, Ann; Eliason, Susan; Wind, Jeanne – 1997
This report describes a program for increasing reading test scores. The targeted population consisted of one second-grade, one third-grade, and two fourth-grade classrooms in a growing middle class community located in a far western suburb of Chicago, Illinois. The problem of low reading test scores was documented though the 1995 IGAP scores on…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cognitive Style, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
Gibbs, Susan G. – 1982
The literature concerning tutoring in the elementary schools was surveyed and evaluated to determine the relative effectiveness of two types of programs--peer and cross-age tutoring. Studies involving each type of program were analyzed separately and effectiveness was judged by the gains in reading achievement experienced by both tutors and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Peer Teaching
Warming, Virginia Oliver – 1976
One hundred twenty college freshmen in the lowest 20% of their classes participated in a study of the relationships between scores on the Nelson-Denny Reading Test and the Cooperative English Test and varying levels of standing on ACT English and Social Studies and SAT Verbal Tests, by race and gender, controlling for high school grade-point…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Communication Skills, Educational Research
Olinger, Clarice K. – 1979
To determine the validity of the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts in predicting reading achievement as measured by the reading scores of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, the Boehm test was given to 55 kindergarten children and the Iowa test was given to 42 of the same children in second grade. The results indiciated that the Boehm test appeared to be of…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Kindergarten, Masters Theses, Predictive Validity
Mellichamp, Elliott McLett, Jr. – 1976
Forty-five sixth-grade students reading at least one year below expected levels participated in a study of the relationships among visual synthesis, oral synthesis, and reading achievement. Instruments constructed for the study included measures of visual synthesis, identification of individual printed syllables, and oral synthesis. Reading…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Miller, Margery Staman – 1976
Two groups of seventh-grade students participated in a comparison of the effects of an experimental remedial reading program emphasizing positive self-concept and improved behavior and a control program. A total of 57 students participated in the thirty-week program. Results from the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory, the Stanford Diagnostic…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 7, Junior High Schools, Program Evaluation
Glazzard, Margaret Leoni – 1975
To aid in the early identification of potential learning disabled children a multiple regression equation using analysis of covariance was used to determine which composite predictor variables obtained in kindergarten correlate maximally with first-grade achievement. Eighty-seven kindergarten students in Lawrence, Kansas, who had been instructed…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Diagnosis, Learning Disabilities, Predictive Measurement
Livingston, Catherine Lucille – 1975
This study sought to determine whether varying the levels of initial diagnosis was related to gains in reading achievement after a maximum period of ten weeks of instruction. The subjects were students enrolled part- or full-time at Parkland College, a public community college located in Champaign, Illinois. Students were assigned to one of three…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Diagnostic Tests, Doctoral Dissertations
Rupley, William H. – 1975
This study compared (1) the mean reading instructional emphases reported by teachers associated with high achieving students of reading with the mean reading instructional emphases reported by teachers associated with low achieving students of reading, and (2) the mean reading instructional emphases reported by third grade teachers with the mean…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, High Achievement, Low Achievement
Johnson, Darwin B. – 1976
Relationships between teachers' knowledge of reading and students' achievement in reading were investigated in a sample of 1,058 students and 62 teachers in grades two, three, and four. Students were pre- and posttested with the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests and the Cognitive Abilities Test. Teachers' knowledge of reading was measured with the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Failure, Reading Achievement
Diamond, Barbara – 1976
This study investigated the effects of a cross-age tutorial experience on the self-esteem of the tutors and the reading achievement of the pupils. Ninety-two fifth-grade males selected from four parochial schools in Nassau County, New York, were tested on a self-esteem inventory. Those scoring lowest were randomly assigned to tutoring groups and…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Grade 2
McAloon, Mary Lee – 1975
This study investigated three elementary school spelling programs, emphasizing the results of the programs as to student achievement in grades three, four, and five, through the utilization of the California Test of Basic Skills. An analysis of covariance method was used to treat the data and, in addition, attitudes were measured by using an…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research
Hesson, Justus Clyde – 1974
The purposes of this dissertation were to study the relationship between the use of performance objectives and the importance of reading comprehension; to ascertain the relationship between the use of performance objectives and the learning of textbook material; and to determine if, by providing training in the use of performance objectives, the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations, Reading Ability
Casavantes, Edward Joseph – 1973
Two sets of data from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights' Mexican American Education Study were selected for analysis in the areas of (1) comparative reading achievement rates of Mexican Americans and black students; and (2) differential in-grade retention rates of Anglo, Mexican American, and black students. Two separate issues were examined.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Doctoral Dissertations, Educationally Disadvantaged, Equal Education
