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Download full textHammond, Bill – 1976
Questionnaires were sent to 56 senior colleges, universities and junior colleges, both public and private, in the state of Georgia, seeking to answer the following questions: (1) What are the general characteristics of developmental reading programs in Georgia's colleges? (2) In developmental studies programs, what reading skills are emphasized…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Learning Laboratories, Postsecondary Education
Bedillion, Clare – 1974
This study investigated the hypothesis that an effective program in developmental reading is generally a significant factor in the academic achievement of college students at the University of Akron. The data collected came from various sources, i.e., reports of investigations on the effectiveness of 18 well-established reading and study skills…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Developmental Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Higher Education
Peer reviewedCleland, Craig J. – Reading World, 1982
Offers six suggestions for making the college student's encounter with the reading clinic a pleasant and successful one. (FL)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Reading Centers
Bates, Gary W. – 1983
To ascertain the current state-of-the-art clinical experiences provided by colleges and universities granting graduate degrees in reading education, a seven-page survey form was mailed to all schools listed in "Graduate Programs and Faculty in Reading, 1981." Questions were designed to obtain information on the following topics: size of college,…
Descriptors: Clinics, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Professional Services
Peer reviewedCate, L. C.; Heerman, C. E. – Reading Horizons, 1987
Measures the effects of infusing writing components into a university reading laboratory. Reports that reading improvement was significant with writing infusions but that results are inconclusive due to lack of true experimental design. (AEW)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Centers, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedAnderson, Ora Sterling; Smith, Laura J. – Reading Improvement, 1987
Describes a college developmental reading laboratory model using peer tutors to provide training in comprehension study skills. Reports the results of a study evaluating the impact of training on student performance from the perspective of the participants. (MM)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Laboratories, Models, Peer Teaching
Miller, Karen J; Stolarski, Rosemary – Computers, Reading and Language Arts, 1984
Describes the process by which an individualized instruction reading test program was developed. (CRH)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development, Educational Diagnosis, Higher Education
Abouzeid, Mary P.; Burgess, Kathleen A. – 1998
The reading clinic at the University of Virginia continues to refine its test battery every year: a new refinement involves collection of more naturalistic language samples and writing samples to add depth to the understanding of children's developing language structures. The "tell a story to get a story" protocol provides a method for new…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Higher Education
Rogers, Sue F. – 1990
A study investigated whether a college reading center was superior to a local public school as a practicum site for developing teachers of literacy. Of 17 undergraduate preservice teachers enrolled in a practicum in a reading field placement course, 10 were placed in the college reading center and 7 in a primary level public school. The preservice…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Research, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Kitao, Kenji; And Others – 1990
A study investigated the use of a collection of English language books by Doshisha University (Japan) students of English as a Second Language (n=300). Four levels of readers, graded by vocabulary content were used in eight classes that offered individualized reading instruction. Students were given instruction in using graded readers, strongly…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Parham, Jo Ann Walton – 1975
Seventy freshmen in a reading and study skills center participated in a study of the relationship between persistence in participating in a voluntary, noncredit developmental reading program and sex, personality type, entrance reading proficiency, entrance general scholastic ability, type of program selected, and change in grade-point average. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Developmental Reading
Peer reviewedPitts, Sandra K. – Reading Horizons, 1985
Describes the reading and writing laboratory program at the University of Albuquerque. (FL)
Descriptors: College Programs, Higher Education, Integrated Activities, Learning Laboratories
Kelly, Virginia – 1992
This paper discusses the concept of "study reading" as used at a learning disabilities clinic at the University of Southampton, England. Study reading is defined as attentive reading to learn and remember, as different from reading that is performed simply to follow a narrative or browsing for one's own, self-set purposes. Results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Learner Controlled Instruction, Learning Disabilities
Ridout, Susan Ramp; And Others – 1994
This handbook discusses the procedures of the Indiana University Southeast Reading Center that is part of a Methods of Teaching Reading II/Reading Practicum course. The handbook notes that the Reading Center operates on a diagnostic/prescriptive basis giving attention to the needs of the child in the area of language arts. After presenting a…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Course Descriptions, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Garner, Ruth – 1984
Good readers tend to engage in conscious reading strategies that poor readers do not. Expert readers display the following strategic behaviors that novices do not: (1) studying text segments previously found difficult more extensively than easy segments; (2) spending more study time on difficult stories than on easy ones; (3) summarizing just the…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Centers
