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Baker, George Arthur William – 1976
A sample of 194 high-school students participated in an investigation of Geyer's hypothesis that the reading or prose takes place by sequential acquisition during the fixational pause of the eye. A measure of sequential acquisition time was obtained using a movie which displayed six-letter words one letter at a time: students were asked to write…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Doctoral Dissertations, Prose, Reading Processes
Smith, Cyrus Findlay, Jr. – 1976
In order to investigate the effect of experimenter-controlled reading speeds on the literal comprehension of multilevel reading passages and to assess the effects of operant-regulated, or self-regulated, conditions on reading speed, these two studies sampled a total of 400 eighth graders. Two passages, originally written at the eighth-grade level,…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 8, Operant Conditioning
