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Direct linkKorinth, Sebastian Peter; Dimigen, Olaf; Sommer, Werner; Breznitz, Zvia – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
The Reading Acceleration Program (RAP), which uses adaptively increasing text erasure rates to enforce reading rate improvements, has been positively evaluated in various languages, reader and age groups. The current study compared the established incremental increase of text erasure rate with a training using fixed erasure rates in two groups of…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Eye Movements, Reading Rate, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedBreznitz, Zvia; Share, David L. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1992
Four experiments with 23 second graders in Haifa (Israel) tested the hypothesis that comprehension gains in fast-paced reading are attributable primarily to changes in short-term memory (STM) functioning. Results confirm the hypothesis, providing support for a causal role of STM functioning in text processing. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 2
