A longitudinal study was conducted to determine the relative effectiveness of a developmental reading course taught to students in a college of nursing. Forty-two students in the experimental group were enrolled in a ten-week developmental reading course during the first semester of their freshman year; the control group, also composed of 42…

THE AMOUNT AND KIND OF READING DONE BY COLLEGE FRESHMEN AND THE NUMBER OF HOURS DEVOTED TO IT DURING AN ACADEMIC YEAR WERE RELATED TO APTITUDE AS MEASURED BY THE AMERICAN COLLEGE TESTING PROGRAM BATTERY (ACT) AND GRADE POINT AVERAGE. TIME CHART FORMS WERE USED TO COLLECT THE DATA. CHARTS WERE KEPT BY OHIO UNIVERSITY FRESHMEN MEN FOR 28 WEEKS. THE…

Describes a study of 115 college students enrolled in a reading improvement program and an equal number of control students. Significant gains in mean grade point average in reading rate, and in reading efficiency are reported for those students who entered the program reading between 200-250 words per minute. Bibliography. (MD)

After research between 1960 and 1977 relating to college reading program effectiveness was identified, a statistical procedure called Meta-Analysis was used to integrate findings and determine any composite benefit of instruction. Of 676 references on the initial list, 66 studies were identified as having quantifiable data within the limits of the…