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Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 19 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) children's approaches to reading tasks; (2) methods of teaching word recognition to aphasic/severely language disordered students; (3) intentional forgetting…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, Compensatory Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1985
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 10 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effects of bilingual memory on learning vocabulary through the device of semantic mapping; (2) native American and Anglo use of compliance-gaining…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Biculturalism
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The ten titles deal with the following topics: passage integrity and type of instruction in prose learning; college student self-concept and reading gain in two instructional methods; the consequences for adults of childhood…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, College Students
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1979
The administrators' and teachers' manual for the New York State Preliminary Competency Test in Reading provides information on the student population to be tested; the degrees of reading power (DRP) methodology to measure students' reading comprehension; the test content; and the state reference point, a cutoff score expressed in terms of…
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Guides
Roberts, Mary Marjorie Southard – 1967
In this investigation, 270 ninth-grade students at Jefferson Junior High School in Columbia, Missouri, were tested to determine how well they comprehended the meanings of allusions in their required reading materials. Test results were compared with other objective data from school records to discern the extent to which the factors of sex,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Educational Testing
Rothman, Sheldon – 2002
Achievement in literacy and numeracy by Australian 14-year-olds was examined by analyzing data from the following studies conducted between 1975 and 1998: the Australian Studies in School Performance; the Australian Studies of Student Performance; the Youth in Transition Survey; and the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth. During the study…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Achievement Tests, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis
Whitmer, Jean E. – 1986
A study examined whether writing modeled from children's picture books would improve reading comprehension of fourth and fifth graders as much as traditional skills instruction. Subjects, 69 children reading at least one year below grade level from six Chapter 1 Colorado schools, were pretested for reading comprehension levels. Subjects were then…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 4, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 28 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) abled and disabled sixth grade readers' knowledge of story structure under three conditions, (2) the impact of typographical factors on the visual information…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational History
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) reading readiness, linguistic awareness, and nonverbal problem solving ability in relation to first grade reading achievement; (2) predictive accuracy of third…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Doctoral Dissertations
Orleans Parish School Board, New Orleans, LA. – 1971
Gateway High School is an alternative to the present, conventional, classroom-type instructional situation encountered in most U. S. schools. Modeled on the Parkway School in Philadelphia and the Metro School in Chicago, the project is an appeal to the disenchanted learner. To abolish the dichotomy between education and life the program obtained…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Educational Innovation, Experiential Learning, Information Dissemination
Simons, Herbert D.; Ammon, Paul R. – 1987
To weigh the negative effects of "primerese" against its supposedly improved readability, a study compared the reading of controlled basal stories with that of the same stories minimally rewritten into more natural language. Participants were 64 white, lower middle class first grade students selected from five classrooms (all with basal…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods
Combs, Martha, Ed. – 1987
Papers in this yearbook cover a variety of topics in the field of language arts instruction, such as creative writing instruction, reading assessment from a Whole Language perspective, journal writing, and strategies for modifying commercial reading materials. Papers and their authors are as follows: (1) "Let's Get Creative about Creative…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Content Area Reading, Creative Writing, Cultural Awareness
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 28 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) prekindergarten screening and first grade reading achievement; (2) the influence of the instructional environment on children's acquisition of reading; (3)…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Cerebral Dominance, Classroom Environment
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 18 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) predicting kindergarten children's success with specific reading methods using group readiness tests; (2) the types of discourse included in basal reading…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the effects of cognitive strategy training on reading achievement and Piagetian cognitive level among high risk college freshmen; (2) the impact of a college reading program on…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes
