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Schunk, Dale H.; Rice, Jo Mary – 1988
A study investigated the effects of goal setting on children's self-efficacy and skillful performance during reading comprehension instruction. Subjects, 17 fourth graders and 16 fifth graders from one elementary school, had regularly received remedial reading comprehension instruction. Subjects were administered a pretest consisting of a…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Grade 4, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
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
Rashkoff, Gladys S. – 1976
This study examined the effects of three reading programs on the reading comprehension and vocabulary of 895 fifth graders and sixth graders. One program used a conventional basal reader; the second used the supplementary, behaviorally referenced Brentwood Educational System for Testing (BEST) and conventional basal reading materials; the third…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Behavioral Objectives, Doctoral Dissertations, Intermediate Grades
Maher, Phillip Ray – 1975
The purposes of this study were to analyze the effects of instructional objectives as advance organizers prior to a reading assignment, determine if an advance organizer was more effectively presented with two learning modalities than with one; predict whether vocabulary or readability variables influenced comprehension; and determine whether…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Behavioral Objectives, Critical Reading, Doctoral Dissertations
White, Nancy – 1980
Developed for teachers of grades 4-8, this unit of study is intended to further students' ability to draw conclusions or predict outcomes using inferential comprehension. Student pages are given which correspond to Levels 9 through 13 in the 1976 reading series of Ginn and Company. Information is given to assist the teacher in explaining…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Intermediate Grades
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Educational Assessment. – 1986
The reading learning objectives for fifth graders contained in this volume are congruent with the Texas "State Board of Education Rules for Curriculum." These objectives and the measurement specifications are provided for use by teachers and other educators responsible for student instruction and for test development specialists involved…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Educational Objectives, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
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Hartl, David, Ed.; And Others – 1977
Designed to assist teachers in small schools with the improvement of curriculum and instruction and to help smaller districts which do not have curriculum personnel to comply with Washington's Student Learning Objectives (SLO) Law, this guide contains reading curriculum materials for grades 4-6. The objectives listed are correlated to the Goals…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Educational Objectives, Informal Assessment, Instructional Materials