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Peer reviewedCarlin, James B. – Reading Teacher, 1970
Descriptors: Grade 6, Interpersonal Relationship, Reading Centers, Reading Comprehension
Bates, Gary W. – 1983
To ascertain the current state-of-the-art clinical experiences provided by colleges and universities granting graduate degrees in reading education, a seven-page survey form was mailed to all schools listed in "Graduate Programs and Faculty in Reading, 1981." Questions were designed to obtain information on the following topics: size of college,…
Descriptors: Clinics, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Professional Services
Bozman, Maurice Wilson – 1972
The purpose of this study was to assess the extent of the relationship between test data of problem readers diagnosed in a reading center and the kinds of recommendations made by a reading specialist at the center in the areas of phonics and comprehension. A second dimension was to assess the agreement of the diagnoses in the areas of phonics and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Centers
Download full textHENDERSON, EDMUND H.; AND OTHERS – 1965
THE RELATIONSHIPS OF THREE PERSONALITY CONCEPTS, DIFFERENTIATION, ESTEEM, AND INDIVIDUALISM, TO READING ACHIEVEMENT AND DISABILITY WERE EXPLORED. THIRTY-TWO BOYS AND 16 GIRLS, AGE 7 TO 14 WITH 1 TO 6 YEARS READING RETARDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE READING STUDY CENTER WERE MATCHED WITH SUCCESSFUL READERS OF THE SAME AGE AND SEX. THE SCHOOL…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Comparative Analysis, Individual Testing, Matched Groups
Bergera, James G. – 1976
The effects of a model resource program on the reading skills of handicapped children were assessed in comparisons between handicapped students who participated in the model program and similar students who participated in the resource center program before the model was implemented. Reading skills were assessed at the beginning and end of the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Handicapped Students, Inservice Teacher Education
Peer reviewedCate, L. C.; Heerman, C. E. – Reading Horizons, 1987
Measures the effects of infusing writing components into a university reading laboratory. Reports that reading improvement was significant with writing infusions but that results are inconclusive due to lack of true experimental design. (AEW)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Centers, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Peer reviewedAnderson, Ora Sterling; Smith, Laura J. – Reading Improvement, 1987
Describes a college developmental reading laboratory model using peer tutors to provide training in comprehension study skills. Reports the results of a study evaluating the impact of training on student performance from the perspective of the participants. (MM)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Laboratories, Models, Peer Teaching
Peer reviewedRennie, Barbara J.; And Others – Reading Horizons, 1986
Concludes that subjects in a clinic setting developed a variety of reading and writing strategies to enable them to succeed during their time at the clinic and that helped them maintain their processing--in spite of questionable teaching practices. (FL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Program Content
Abouzeid, Mary P.; Burgess, Kathleen A. – 1998
The reading clinic at the University of Virginia continues to refine its test battery every year: a new refinement involves collection of more naturalistic language samples and writing samples to add depth to the understanding of children's developing language structures. The "tell a story to get a story" protocol provides a method for new…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Higher Education
Vinsonhaler, John F. – 1979
In a study of reading clinicians' collection and diagnosis procedures, three types of clinical agreement were examined: group agreement, intraclinician agreement, and interclinician agreement. Eight senior and respected practicing clinicians were involved in the study, which used simulated cases of reading problems based upon real cases. The…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Diagnosis, Oral Reading, Problem Solving
Parham, Jo Ann Walton – 1975
Seventy freshmen in a reading and study skills center participated in a study of the relationship between persistence in participating in a voluntary, noncredit developmental reading program and sex, personality type, entrance reading proficiency, entrance general scholastic ability, type of program selected, and change in grade-point average. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Developmental Reading
Kerstiens, Gene – 1971
This topical paper discusses briefly the status of research in junior college reading/study skills programs. Specific gaps in research and the fundamental reasons for them are examined. Several areas in critical need of immediate and long-range study are identified. Tests, materials and their selection, programs and approaches, and student…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Educational Research, Reading, Reading Centers
Kerstiens, Gene, Ed. – 1973
The thirty papers in this Annual Proceedings of the Western College Reading Association (WCRA) were originally delivered at the Sixth Annual Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Topics covered include self-programed control, increasing study-concentration behavior, individualizing a college reading program, human options for human beings,…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Individualized Reading, Learning, Reading
Whittaker, Jeweleane Wilma – 1971
A machine-oriented reading course was compared to a textbook-oriented reading course to see which course more effectively improved reading rate and reading comprehension in disadvantaged college freshmen. Subjects were 340 college freshmen in reading classes at Texas Southern University who were divided into two matched treatment groups. The…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Disadvantaged Youth, Reading Centers, Reading Comprehension
Gil, Doron; And Others – 1979
An ongoing investigation of the process of reading diagnosis and remediation based on a theory of clinical problem solving called the "inquiry theory" has been undertaken by the Clinical Studies Group at the Institute for Research on Teaching. A review of several observational, computer simulation, and training studies conducted as part of the…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Educational Programs, Interaction Process Analysis, Problem Solving
