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dePillis, S. E.; Singer, Harry – 1985
A study examined whether the female superiority in reading achievement that exists in the United States is duplicated in a population that is genetically similar but culturally different from that of the United States. A sample of 4th and 6th grade students from Bielefeld, West Germany, and a sample of 4th and 6th grade students from Rialto,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences, Elementary Education, Females
Daku, Joseph J. – 1978
The Group Embedded Figures Test and the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills were administered to 222 sixth grade students to explore the relationship between field-dependent/field-independent cognitive styles and reading achievement; scores from the Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Tests were used to control IQ. The 60 students with the highest scores and the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Grade 6, Intelligence Tests, Intermediate Grades
Karlin, Robert – Engl J, 1969
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Individualized Instruction, Reading, Reading Ability
Silberberg, Norman E.; Silberberg, Margret C. – J Sch Psychol, 1968
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students, Intelligence
Eurich, Alvin C. – 1980
The Minnesota Reading Examination for College Students and the Minnesota Speed of Reading Test were administered to 865 University of Minnesota freshmen in 1978. When these test results were compared to the scores on the same tests that 1,313 freshmen and 4,191 high school seniors received in 1928, the 1978 students scored significantly lower than…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Educational Trends, Higher Education
Annesley, Frederick R.; Scott, Edward – 1977
The second in a series concerning some implications of learners' cognitive style for the development of reading competence, this paper explores the relationships between cognitive style and reading achievement, with attention to such factors as the stability and flexibility of cognitive style functions. The paper discusses J. E. Hill's concept of…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement
Moacdieh, Chris – 1981
A study was conducted to test the revisionist theory which holds that students are channeled into good or poor reading groups, depending on the socioeconomic status of their parents as perceived by the teacher. The theory also maintains that there is a detrimental lack of mobility between groups within a given class and from grade to grade. The…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Primary Education, Reading Ability
Download full textBRZEINSKI, JOSEPH; MCKEE, PAUL – 1966
THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BEGINNING THE TEACHING OF READING IN KINDERGARTEN. THE LONGITUDINAL EFFECTS AS WELL AS THE INITIAL RESULTS WERE EXAMINED. THE PROGRESS OF THE CHILDREN IN THE STUDY WAS FOLLOWED FROM THE KINDERGARTEN THROUGH THE FIFTH GRADE. THE SAMPLE CONSISTED OF 4,000 KINDERGARTEN PUPILS RANDOMLY ASSIGNED BY THE…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Kindergarten Children, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement
HARRIS, ALBERT J.; MORRISON, COLEMAN
THIS STUDY IS PART OF THE CRAFT READING PROJECT OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM WHICH IS INVESTIGATING THE READING PROGRESS OF DISADVANTAGED URBAN NEGRO CHILDREN. IN THE PRESENT STUDY, CHILDREN IN GRADES ONE, TWO, AND THREE, WITH AND WITHOUT PREVIOUS KINDERGARTEN EXPERIENCE, WERE TAUGHT READING BY TWO BASIC METHODS, EACH DIVIDED INTO TWO…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Scholtz, Ann Judith – 1975
This study was an investigation into the relationships between reading interests and reading comprehension as demonstrated by a group of fifth-graders who rated reading passages for interest and then were checked for comprehension of these same passages. A seven-point rating inventory, ranging from a "liked very, very much" rating to a "disliked…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Masters Theses, Reading Ability
Lazdowski, Walter Peter – 1976
This study investigated the use of samples of students' writing as a means of assessing their reading achievement. Writing samples were collected from 338 students in grades seven through fourteen. Reading ability for these students ranged from below third-grade level to above fourteenth-grade level. Writing samples were categorized according to…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques
Jones, Margaret B. – 1974
This study was designed to confirm the hypothesis that objectives which focused on items of information best facilitated reading retention among a population of elementary school children while controlling for the children's reading level rather than for the "density" of the reading passage. Two 550-word reading passages taken from "Life in the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Reading Ability
Okada, Masahito; Sullivan, Howard J. – 1971
This study investigated the effects of three different word-decoding instructional procedures: a single-letter (SL) approach, a letter-combination (LC) approach, and a procedure in which children receive several weeks' instruction in the SL method and then switch to the LC approach. Grade 1 pupils were assigned at random to the three treatment…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Grade 1, Primary Education, Reading Ability
Hays, Warren S. – 1974
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between word recognition and comprehension achieved by second and fifth grade students when reading material at various levels of readability. A random sample of twenty-five second and twenty-five fifth graders, taken from three middle class schools, was administered a…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 5, Informal Reading Inventories, Reading
Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, DC. Job Corps. – 1967
Designed to assess the current reading ability of a Job Corps member, to introduce him to appropriate material for improving his reading ability--combining self-paced and individualized instruction--and to raise his reading ability to the seventh or eighth grade level as measured by standardized reading achievement instruments, this reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Independent Reading, Individualized Reading, Job Training
