Advocates the teaching of study skills in place of speed reading in college reading programs. (RB)

Before standardized reading placement and achievement tests for college admission are selected, they must be analyzed to determine what skills they measure and to what degree they correspond with reading program objectives. (Author/KS)

Reviews the literature in the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) on college reading programs. (RB)

After reviewing the literature on college reading study-skills programs, concludes that the effectiveness of such programs is not established and many of them are not serving the designed purpose. (RB)

Faculty, administrators and librarians should form a three fold guarantee of total involvement in reading programs. (Editor/IR)

Describes a college reading clinic program which combines a college Reading Improvement Course and counseling sessions to aid students to improve their study skills. (EJT)

The purpose of this study was to collect information about the graduate degree program in reading at Montclair State College, the graduates' professional and educational involvement, and graduates' perception and assessment of the level of attainment of the program objectives. Questionnaires were sent to 42 master's graduates from the graduate…

Describes a team effort by an historian and a college reading specialist in which volunteer undergraduate students participated in hopes of improving their history papers. Weekly sessions involved summarizing history assignments. Results indicate the importance of both reading levels and reading styles. (KC)

Students derive more benefits from attending developmental reading courses that are an integral part of the academic curricula (Maxwell, 1997). Colleges that pair their developmental reading courses with content courses achieve the objective of integrating the developmental courses into the academic curricula. This article describes the model and…

A study examined the skills taught in college reading programs and who teaches them. Questionnaires were returned from 105 colleges and universities across the United States. The data collected were analyzed to show the frequency of response, and the results indicated that (1) reading was taught primarily by persons with master's degrees or…

This book is intended to help teachers of reading examine the actions that they need to perform during each day's reading lesson. These actions, referred to as teaching tasks, are a series of specific subskills that every teacher should possess and use to better enable children to learn how to read. The reading tasks include: "Building Your Own…

Compares the reading and comprehension ages of children who were in Reading Recovery at age 6 to those in a comparison group as they enter their fifth and sixth years in school. Reports that the ex-Reading Recovery children were 12 and 13 months superior in terms of reading and comprehension ages, respectively. (CMK)

This study was designed to develop and evaluate new methods of helping college students increase their academic reading efficiency. Three new one-unit courses--identical in reading content, tasks, and skills development, but differing in format, amount of structure, and delivery mode--were developed. The teaching methods in these courses were…

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…