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Peer reviewedLaflamme, John G. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 1997
Finds that high school students (grade 10) who were exposed to the Multiple Exposure Vocabulary Method in combination with the Target Reading/Writing Strategy received a significantly better verbal score on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test than students who received more traditional instruction. (SR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 10, High Schools, Instructional Effectiveness
Kinney, Martha A. – 1985
A study investigated the ability of above average and average high school students to use text structure to identify main ideas and write a summary. Schema possession of 388 sophomores was assessed by measuring their ability to organize the components of a scrambled passage. Only 10 students in the above average and 20 in the average ability…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Grade 10, High Schools
Peer reviewedSiedow, Mary Dunn; Fox, Barbara J. – Reading World, 1984
Concludes that training in a natural instructional setting can improve poor readers' ability to use top-level structure in signaled and nonsignaled passages. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Processes, English Instruction, Grade 10
Download full textAlvermann, Donna E.; Van Arnam, Steve – 1984
A study was conducted to determine whether high and low ability comprehenders would benefit from induced lookbacks over naturally occurring text. Subjects were 64 tenth grade students selected on the basis of how their self-perceived proficiency matched their actual reading achievement as measured on a standardized test. The subjects were randomly…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Context Clues, Grade 10, Graphic Organizers
Stahl, Steven A.; And Others – 1991
Using a newspaper article about a ceremony marking the retirement of baseball player Tom Seaver's uniform number, a study examined: (1) the effects of knowledge of baseball in general and of the career of Tom Seaver in particular; and (2) the effects of knowledge of word meanings in general and of words used in the passage specifically on 10th…
Descriptors: Baseball, Context Clues, Grade 10, High Schools
Marr, Mary Beth – 1983
With the use of verbal report strategies, a study was conducted to examine (1) the types of comprehension strategies readers use to process familiar and less familiar texts and (2) the differential use of think aloud strategies by average and below average readers. Subjects were 15 tenth grade male students in upstate New York. Two weeks prior to…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Grade 10
Nolen, Patricia A.; Mathews, Paula B. – 1981
The reading recall protocols of 24 tenth grade and 24 twelfth grade students were used in a study that investigated the relationship of average reading ability and high school grade placement to recall of expository text with adversative and attributive structures. Two test passages were written in an adversative structure with contrasting…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Grade 10
