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Download full textKulekowskis, Jennifer – 1996
A study explored the relationship between student behavior ("troubling" versus "non-troubling") and reading achievement among second-grade students. Of the 128 students enrolled in regular education classrooms at Paul Revere Elementary School (a public school in a southern suburb of Chicago), 30 were randomly selected to be a…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Grade 2, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
Faneuff, Robert S. – 1990
The reading abilities of enlisted personnel are of interest to the Air Force for a number of reasons. One important reason is that the Air Force must ensure that airmen have the abilities necessary to read and comprehend training material and job aides such as technical orders (TOs). Since reading ability tends to differ among the Air Force…
Descriptors: Adults, Enlisted Personnel, Readability, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedBrekke, Beverly W.; Williams, John D. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1975
Concludes that despite a significant relationship between conservation and intelligence, neither is a significant predictor of reading achievement. (RB)
Descriptors: Conservation (Concept), Predictive Measurement, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedRubeck, Patricia A. – Reading Teacher, 1975
Concludes that the extra attention paid to children during the administration of reading tests does not have a significant effect on test performance and that the Hawthorne effect does not influence reading test results. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement, Reading Research
Schafer, Virginia – 1989
A study investigated differences in reading achievement of students taught with a whole language philosophy compared to students taught using a basal textbook. Subjects, 20 second grade students taught using a whole language philosophy and 17 second grade students in the same school using basal textbooks, were given pre- and posttests to determine…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Comparative Analysis, Grade 2, Primary Education
Peer reviewedKahn, Norma B. – Reading Improvement, 1974
Lists the factors related to reading achievement, together with the research which supports each factor in the list. (RB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Development
Peer reviewedBrekke, Beverly; Williams, John D. – Journal of Psychology, 1975
Identifies the concept of reversibility (an awareness of the prior situation after a transformation of shape) as an area of difficulty in the Piagetian concept of transitional conservation. (RB)
Descriptors: Conservation (Concept), Primary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Readiness
Peer reviewedShearron, Gilbert F. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Primary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Readiness
Kaplan, Bernard – 1978
A study was conducted to ascertain what influence transferring from one school to another had on students from four ethnic groups and on the overall reading achievement scores in ten selected Title I disadvantaged schools over a five-year period. The approximately 700 sixth grade students involved in the study represented Hispanic, Causasian,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Ethnic Groups, Reading Achievement
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1979
This report presents results of analyses of factors affecting reading achievement of students in grades one through sex in District of Columbia schools as measured by the percentage of objectives mastered on the Prescriptive Reading Test (PRT) and by students' interest in reading for the year 1977-78. It also contains descriptive information about…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Program Evaluation, Reading Achievement, Reading Programs
Chall, Jeanne S. – 1976
In this address, the author examines the complex scope of reading achievement, instruction, and research in the United States. The discussion begins with a historical perspective, continues with views of the development of reading as a science and as a profession, and concludes with a discussion of current and future developments in the reading…
Descriptors: Development, Futures (of Society), History, Literacy
Jackson, Raleigh Napoleon – 1972
The purpose of this study was to determine how reading achievement is affected by six independent personality factors (PF) exhibited by second-grade pupils. Personality factors involved are: (A) reserved vs. outgoing, (B) less intelligent vs. more intelligent, (C) feelings vs. emotionally stable, (D) phlegmatic vs. excitable, (E) obedient vs.…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Personality, Personality Assessment, Reading
Peer reviewedYoung, Beverly S. – Reading Teacher, 1976
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Predictive Measurement, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedLang, Janell Baker – Reading Teacher, 1976
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedRupley, William H.; Blair, Timothy R. – Reading Teacher, 1978
A discussion of selected ERIC documents that focus on teacher effectiveness in reading instruction is presented. (MKM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
