A draft of grade-by-grade common standards is undergoing significant revisions in response to feedback that the outline of what students should master is confusing and insufficiently user-friendly. Writing groups convened by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the National Governors Association (NGA) are at work on what they say…

In this paper, the author asks the question, "Can Boys Succeed Later in Life if They Can't Read as Well as Girls?" He notes troubling statistics that illustrate lower performance of boys compared to girls, including performance on state reading tests, and graduation rates from both high school and college. He says that the good news is that the…

Early college is a bold approach that blends high school and college in a rigorous yet supportive program to help young people simultaneously earn a diploma and tuition-free credit toward a postsecondary degree. Designed for students underrepresented in higher education, these innovative small public schools focus on the preparation of low-income…

These proceedings contain the papers of the 14th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2017), 18-20 October 2017, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and endorsed by the Japanese Society for Information and Systems in…

Describes an exercise to help students break their dependency on the dictionary and to trust themselves to derive the meaning of unfamiliar words from the surrounding context. Students read a sentence containing an unfamiliar word, infer the meaning from the context, then design a new sentence using the word. (HTH)

Notes that Guided Design is a teaching strategy that can be used to increase high school and college students' comprehension when reading and studying. Describes implementation of Guided Design and a summary of one student's application of Guided Design to the comprehension of a difficult chapter in a cognitive psychology textbook. (RS)

Discusses prereading activities, citing the book "Too Late the Phalarope," by Alan Paton, to help improve student reading comprehension and enjoyment. (HTH)

Offers an activity for use in helping students become aware of the importance of voice in writing and reading. (FL)

Twenty college and 38 high school deaf students were studied in the hope of determining whether the deaf (who are, in a way, second language learners of English) will select referents differently as compared to hearing native English speakers. Seventy-three normal hearing students were used as the control group. Booklets were prepared containing…

Two explanations for text summarization deficiencies among older learners were investigated. Results of the study confirmed deficiencies documented in the literature but with some specificity for source of the deficit and for age level. Specific instructional remedies are proposed. (Author/LMO)

In an effort to evaluate comprehension skills with a "real world" task, students were asked to summarize and respond to an excerpt from a college freshman textbook. The written responses of a group of both high school students (n=100) and college students (n=51) were analyzed through a checklist developed to assess students'…

Outlines instructional activities for developing three subsets of metacognitive awareness--task awareness, strategy awareness, and performance awareness. Argues that students will be effective and efficient learners only by knowing what to study, how best to study it, and whether it has been learned. (RS)

This paper presents the current PASS (Proficiency-based Admission Standards System) Proficiency Standards in English and answers the question of what students should be able to do upon admission to the Oregon University System. The PASS standards in the paper are aligned with and complement the standards, scoring guides, and test specifications…

Recommendations concerning the reading, writing, and mathematics skills that are needed by students entering degree programs in Minnesota postsecondary institutions are offered by a Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating Board task force. In addition to describing reading skills that students need for most college degree programs, conditions…

Reviews research published from 1960 to 1981 concerning prereading strategies. Concludes that there is a dearth of conclusive research in the area and calls for renewed efforts on the part of researchers. (FL)