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Spearritt, D.; And Others – 1977
A battery of reading tests designed to identify the component skills involved in reading comprehension was administered to 624 sixth grade students in the metropolitan Sydney (Australia) schools. Factor analysis of the data showed that knowledge of word meanings, sentence comprehension, and semantic context are experimentally identifiable…
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Download full textCalfee, Robert C.; Drum, Priscilla A. – 1976
This paper discusses some specific issues about testing and relates the discussion to reading teachers and reading instruction. The issues that are discussed include the goals, criteria, and methods of classroom assessment. The paper concludes that teachers need to learn more about the process of assessment in order to use tests effectively, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Conference Reports, Decision Making, Elementary Education
Flippo, Rona F. – 1980
This paper discusses an investigation that compared college students' reading gains when using general or specific diagnosis. It reports that significant gains were made on many subskills of the Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test by the group that had the prescriptions developed as a result of a differential (specific) diagnosis and that there were…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Programs, Diagnostic Teaching
Langer, Judith A.; Nicolich, Mark – 1980
Based on the view that text-specific concept and vocabulary knowledge affect the processing and recall of text and that a measure of this knowledge might assist teachers in determining whether a reader possesses adequate background to successfully comprehend and recall a particular text, a study was conducted. Its purpose was to develop a measure…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Discourse Analysis, Knowledge Level, Readability
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A study was conducted to measure the effect and compare the results of developmental reading instruction for college students as prescribed from the specific results of a diagnostic reading test and a general, more traditionally used, survey reading test. The sample consisted of 226 students enrolled in different sections of a reading course…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Programs, Diagnostic Teaching
BLIESMER, EMERY P. – 1967
A REVIEW OF 124 ARTICLES PERTAINING TO COLLEGE AND ADULT READING WHICH APPEARED IN THE PERIODICAL LITERATURE IS PRESENTED. THE ARTICLES ARE TREATED WITHIN THE FOLLOWING AREAS--(1) PROGRAMS, INCLUDING READING AND STUDY HABITS, TRAITS, AND SKILLS, (2) THE INFLUENCE OF READING, STUDY HABITS, AND SKILLS, (3) THE FACTORS INFLUENCING READING AND OTHER…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
MOQUIN, L. DORIS; SPENCER, DORIS U. – 1965
THIS STUDY COMPARED THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A STANDARD BASAL READING PROGRAM WITH AN INDIVIDUALIZED READING PROGRAM WHICH INCORPORATED (1) A PROGRAM OF PHONETIC SKILLS, (2) WORD RECOGNITION, (3) COMPREHENSION SKILLS, AND (4) A PROGRAM OF STORY READING. TWELVE COMBINATION FIRST- AND SECOND-GRADE INDIVIDUALIZED READING CLASSES WERE PAIRED WITH 12 BASAL…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Comprehension
Diederich, Paul B. – 1973
This bulletin summarizes and interprets some of the main findings of "The Reading Problem in the United States," by Abraham Carp, Chapter III of "The Information Base for Reading: A Critical Review of the Information Base for Current Assumptions Regarding the Status of Instruction and Achievement in Reading in the United States," the final report…
Descriptors: Literacy, Literature Reviews, Measurement Techniques, National Norms
Pepper, Roger S. – 1969
The performance results of a class of marginal students at Wayne State University were examined by comparing their standardized test scores with those of regular students and by correlating the scores and the work of the marginal students after 1 year of school. (The subjects were part of an experimental program for students who do not meet the…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Admission, College Instruction, College Preparation
Hansen, Lee H.; Hesse, Karl D. – 1972
A criterion-referenced assessment of reading literacy conducted in the fall of 1971 in grades 4, 7, 10, and 12 of the Madison Public Schools is described. The study was designed to answer the question: Can Wisconsin students read (gain information from) the written materials they encounter in daily living? The procedures for identifying the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Criterion Referenced Tests, Grade 10
Peer reviewedDunn, Rita – Journal of Reading, 1988
Discusses recent research on learning style, revealing some of the problems with the research as well as how work on learning modality can help students with trouble in school. Also discusses tests that identify learning style, and advises teachers to keep an open mind about learning style research. (SKC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Modalities
Peer reviewedAlderson, J. Charles; Lukmani, Yasmeen – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1989
Attempts to answer the question whether indentifiably separate levels of reading comprehension exist by judgmentally using 9 teachers at the University of Lancaster and empirically using 100 students from Bombay university. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, College Students, Difficulty Level, English (Second Language)
Snyder, Jon; And Others – 1993
A pilot study explored the nature of the relationship between test and classroom evidence and considered how these different sources of evidence were used in assessing and promoting student growth and development in reading. Test estimates of third-grade children in two public elementary programs in New York City were compared with estimates of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools, Grade 3
Morgan, Margaret – 1997
A study compared the comprehension abilities of readers when reading narrative and expository discourse. It was designed to investigate how middle-level high-achieving and low-achieving readers comprehend the two discourse genres, testing the readers' comprehension of main ideas in the text under both conditions. Also examined was whether…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 7, Grade 8, High Achievement
Goetz, Ernest T.; Palmer, Douglas J. – 1984
Drawing on study strategy, metacognition, and attribution research, a model of strategy use was presented and evaluated via a series of regression analyses. Data analysis was conducted in three stages: identifying frequency of stragegy use, relating strategy use to test performance, and predicting reported use of strategies that were related to…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, College Students, Higher Education, Individual Characteristics
