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Augstein, E. Sheila; Thomas, Laurie F. – 1975
An action research study that offered students in sixth form, college of education, and university a framework and context for exploring and reviewing their reading-for-learning competencies led to significant improvement on a battery of measures. This paper draws attention to and makes explicit the psychosocial events within the action research…
Descriptors: Action Research, Higher Education, Participation, Reading Improvement
Augstein, E. Sheila; Thomas, Laurie F. – 1977
This paper illustrates how the Kelly repertory grid and the Thomas focusing technique can be used to help teachers and learners become aware of learners' purposes for reading, and how these purposes can be used in a program for improving competencies in reading for learning. The grid elicitation and focusing techniques are briefly described. Four…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement
