Four readers, ranging in age from 62 to 82, were selected for intensive analysis of their reading strategies, habits, and interests. Interviewing provided demographic information and reading habits and interests. Each person read orally an unfamiliar expository selection rated at ninth-grade-level difficulty by the Dale-Chall Readability Formula…

This study investigated storage and retrieval strategies as evidenced by systematic errors of first grade beginning readers on a noun-noun paired-associate learning task. The subjects were 80 black children and 80 white children, in three racially integrated Cincinnati public schools, attending the first grade for the first time. These 160…

This study was conducted to determine the relationship between listening comprehension and rate of presentation using meaningful prose materials. A total of 103 students from a suburban sixth-grade class in a central New Jersey school district participated in the study. To determine reading comprehension levels, the students were administered the…

This doctoral dissertation examines students' perceptions of their teachers' feelings toward them and possible relationships that exist between perceptions and reading achievement. In addition, the study sought to determine if differences in positive feelings exist among Caucasian, Negro, and Indian students; between Title I and non-Title I…

The purpose of this study was to determine if two testing methods, multiple choice and cloze technique, differentially affected students' scores on reading comprehension tests. The tests were compared in their emphasis on cognition and production related abilities as defined by Guilford. Ninety-three Durham County sixth graders were given a…

The progress of 1970-71 kindergarten students from systematically selected schools was followed until June 1973. A formal reading program was administered to experimental pupils as a part of the kindergarten curriculum. Findings indicate that pupils from high socioeconomic schools know concepts usually taught in kindergarten before they enter…

A study was designed to validate the Navy Readability Indices (NRIs) in an individualized instructional system using the criteria of comprehension and learning time. Two hundred Navy enlisted personnel enrolled in a computer-managed technical training course were tested for both comprehension and learning-time-to-criterion on four programmed…

A study examined gender attitudes toward reading in students enrolled in the six sections of the Developmental Reading program at Kean College of New Jersey in the spring of 1996. The Mazurkiewicz Masculine-Feminine Attitude Survey (1960) was used with a forced choice of "mostly masculine" or "mostly feminine." Surveys of 26…

A sample of 270 first, second, and third graders participated in this study of the pronounceability of the 119 phonograms identified in the Glass Analysis for Perceptual Conditioning Program for poor decoders. Each subject was asked to pronounce each of the phonograms. Subjects were cross-classified by grade level, sex, and reading ability as…

A review of literature related to rate of reading and auding, primarily in non-remedial high school and adult readers, is provided in this paper. After offering a definition of reading, a discussion of those studies which examine rates of reading and auding separately is provided with a summary of studies which directly relate rates of reading and…

In order to assess the effectiveness of the Continuous Progress in Spelling program, an individualized approach to spelling mastery, this study investigated the relationships among grade level, reading ability, spelling achievement, and attitude changes, in third- and fourth-grade participants of the program. A total of 689 students from five…

Miscue responses of 20 first-grade pupils to 20 stimulus words were compared and analyzed for four different reading tasks: (1) in isolation, (2) in 10 free-standing sentences, (3) embedded in a complete story, and (4) embedded in an illustrated story. Analysis using the Reading Miscue Inventory indicated a significant gain in correct responses to…

The purpose of this study was to determine the compatibility of the reading level of students with the required power-mechanics textbooks used by senior industrial arts majors in the California State University and Colleges System. The data for this study were obtained from responses to the Schrammel-Gray High School and College Reading Test…

A study was conducted to determine whether programmed instruction or traditional instruction in chemistry was more effective in terms of student preference, student achievement, achievement of students with low reading levels, and achievement of students with high reading levels. Two non-random groups of students with equivalent learning ability…

A study investigated to what extent average middle school students were able to perceive the social issues embedded in literature by Dr. Seuss. Seventy-four seventh-grade students responded to five Dr. Seuss stories in free-writing exercises, response worksheets, and question worksheets. Results showed that the majority of students (approximately…