To determine the effect of oral responses on cloze test, particularly at the primary grade level and with students of below average reading ability, was the purpose of this study. A total of 135 students from second, fourth, and sixth grades were included in the study. At each grade level the students were divided into above-average, average, and…

The purpose of this study were to survey scientific research, professional literature, and doctoral dissertations on reading comprehension done from 1948 to 1972, to identify the reading factors believed to affect reading comprehension, to analyze the identified reading factors by studying the major available research and related literature, to…

This study attempted to validate both the Fry-Kernel Distance Theory and the De Pierro findings, in determining the suitability of text material for the students to be instructed. First-year community college students were presented with sentences arranged in pairs, each representing two of four prescribed types. Subjects were to select the harder…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether significant mean differences exist in standardized reading scores between a district that utilized a single basal series to develop reading ability and a district utilizing a tri-basal approach to reading. A cross-section of elementary teachers from two similar suburban school districts that…

Sixty tenth graders participated in this study of relationships between eye/voice span, phrase and clause boundaries, reading ability, and sentence structure. Results indicated that sentences apparently are "chunked" into surface constituents during processing. Better tenth grade readers had longer eye/voice spans than did poorer readers and…

The problem investigated in this study was to determine the best combination of tests or subtests in a research battery which, when administered to beginning first-grade students, would enable the most efficient prediction of reading achievement. A total of 1052 children were randomly selected from first-grade classrooms within the State of…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between field articulation and reading achievement at the end of grade one, and to investigate the effect on the pupil's reading achievement of the field articulation of the classroom teacher. The sample of pupils was drawn from eight first grade classrooms of female teachers. The…

The purpose of this study was to isolate some independent variables that may be directly related to beginning reading ability. The study was conducted in two phases: the piloting and revision of four perceptual tests involving the ability to manipulate sequential stimuli within or between the visual and auditory modalities; and the administration…

This study involved a comparison of first and second grade students' performance on the Piagetian Task Administration Instrument (PTAI), the Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT), and the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT) with actual reading achievement measured by placement on the Indiviudally Paced Instruction (IPI) Tracking Card in Reading, which was…

The purpose of this study was to find factors related to the success in reading of low-income white children in high schools in five West Virginia counties. The study asked whether disadvantaged students who succeed in reading differ significantly from disadvantaged students who fail in reading: (1) in the amount of their participation in physical…

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…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in reading strategies between good and poor readers in the first, second, third, and fifth grades. Three patterns of students' oral reading errors were analyzed on the Gray Oral Reading test. For the first pattern, occurrence of visually similar and grammatically acceptable errors,…

The purpose of this study was to compare the reading ability of university freshmen in two remedial track courses with the readability of the assigned texts and in light of the instructional methodology employed by the instructional staff of two courses. The investigations findings seemed to suggest that the reading ability of the students in the…

This study attempted to determine if reading ability and grade level differences accounted for differences in the word associations and written syntactic structures of 180 selected students. The study also investigated the relationship of semantic associations and syntactic complexity. An oral, free word association test was used to measure…

The purposes of this study were to determine to what extent students' expectancies, as measured by students' predictions, related to test performance; to determine if taking the test would alter or influence students' expectations and the accuracy of their predictions; and to determine if students' expectations could be altered by a report…