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Download full textKuperberg, Ann – 1975
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…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Listening Comprehension
Thomas, Sylvia Louise – 1972
The problem of this study was concerned with instruction in reading rate acceleration and the effects upon comprehension. Correlates of reading achievement, sex, IQ, age, and interest were also considered. A six-week reading rate training program was completed by the three experimental classes randomly selected in each of grades two, four, and six…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 4, Grade 6
Kimberly, Marion C. – 1973
To determine the effectiveness of one method of rate training in grades two, four, six, and eight, four classes of pupils in each of the four grades studied were assigned randomly to experimental or control treatments: two classes were given 20 lessons each of rate training, one control class was given instruction emphasizing comprehension, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 4, Grade 6
Henney, Maribeth – 1982
Two related studies were conducted to determine whether students read all-capital text and mixed text displayed on a computer screen with the same speed and accuracy. Seventy-seven college students read M. A. Tinker's "Basic Reading Rate Test" displayed on a PLATO computer screen. One treatment consisted of paragraphs in all-capital type…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Elementary Education
Stafford, Gerald Edward – 1972
This study investigated the relationships between three testing techniques and performance on four dimensions of oral reading performance. The three testing techniques were careful reading, reading for specific purposes, and reading for general purposes. The four dimensions of oral reading performance on which comparisons were made involved oral…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 6, Oral Reading
Clark, Henry T., III; Reese, Clyde M. – 1990
A study examined the relationship between text schemata and comprehension monitoring to determine elementary school children's detection and remediation of internal inconsistencies in narrative and expository passages. Data were elicited (through computerized experimental reading passages containing internal inconsistencies) from 87 students in…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 4
Hilderbrand, John A.; And Others – Florida Educational Research and Development Council Research Bulletin, 1983
The first part of this document presents the results of a survey of early entrance testing procedures in 25 Florida districts and details teacher ratings of 486 first-grade and 154 kindergarten students whose entrance test results had permitted them to enter kindergarten a year earlier than other students with birthdays between October and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Costs, Cursive Writing, Early Admission
