Reviews Elizabeth Eisenstein's "The Printing Press as an Agent of Change," which documents how print influenced the Renaissance and the Reformation and set the stage for the Age of Science. (AEA)

Describes a study conducted by Ron Carver that compared the reading rate and comprehension of speed readers with superior readers. (HOD)

Suggests using readability formulas, a skills inventory, an introspective report, and diagnostic approaches based on models of comprehension as informal evaluations of students' content reading ability. (MKM)

Describes six advantageous uses of the cloze stencil in the classroom. (HOD)

Describes using the language experience approach as a diagnostic tool with adults who want to learn to read. Offers a checklist. (SR)

Findings stress the importance of the teacher's role in influencing learning in the community college. (RB)

The FRI and GORT tests are reviewed with attention to test rationales and purposes, test development, test administration, and making the purchase choice. Concludes that the FRI is the preferable test. (JK)

Reports on a study that investigated the reading interests of low ability junior and senior high readers of both sexes. Results indicate that readers of both sexes share some reading interests--among them topics dealing with the unusual. (HOD)

Argues that the obligatory nature of functional literacy does not deprive the individual freedom of thought and opinion, and that voluntarism in basic adult education in the United States has greatly contributed to putting the nation at risk and to keeping it a nation at risk. (HOD)

Suggests a correlation between self-concept and reading ability and presents a checklist of behavioral objectives, teaching strategies, and associated affective qualities to facilitate reading instruction. (KS)

Reviews recent research on eye movements and skilled silent reading and notes the new emphasis on providing insight into the comprehension process. (MKM)