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Peer reviewedRussikoff, Karen A.; Pilgreen, Janice L. – Reading Improvement, 1994
Finds no foundation for the fear teachers and parents have that "light reading" (comic books, magazines, and novels) will limit higher-level reading. Notes that the vast majority of doctoral students at a major southern California university responded affirmatively to light reading as youths. (RS)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Higher Education, Reading Habits, Reading Interests
Peer reviewedTaylor, Denny – Reading Research Quarterly, 1994
Critiques an article by Richard F. West, Keith E. Stanovich, and H. R. Mitchell entitled "Reading in the Real World and Its Correlates," published in an earlier issue of this journal. Questions that article's outdated concepts of mind and mental processes and its inappropriate use of statistics. (HB)
Descriptors: Adults, Higher Education, Literacy, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedStanovich, Keith E.; West, Richard F. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1994
Responds to Denny Taylor's critique in the same issue of an article by Richard F. West, Keith E. Stanovich, and H. R. Mitchell entitled "Reading in the Real World and Its Correlates," published in an earlier issue of "Reading Research Quarterly." (HB)
Descriptors: Adults, Higher Education, Literacy, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedLorincz, Judit – Journal of Reading, 1993
Compares how readers in Hungary and Finland approached selected novels. Finds that the reading of fiction plays different roles in the two societies; different styles are preferred; and readers approach the same book from a different perspective. (SR)
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Peer reviewedRinehart, Steven D.; Gerlach, Jeanne M.; Wisell, Diana L.; Welker, William A. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1998
Explores how eighth-grade students choose books for recreational reading. Identifies and analyzes strategies used during a book selection process and information valued during the experiences. Describes how accurately and thoughtfully many students can predict whether they would like to read a particular book or not. Demonstrates the complexities…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Reading Interests, Reading Material Selection
Download full textMarino, Michael; Moylan, Mary Elizabeth – 1994
A study examined the commonalities that "voracious" readers share, and how their experiences can guide parents, teachers, and librarians in assisting children to become self-actualized readers. Subjects, 25 adults ranging in age from 20 to 67 years, completed a questionnaire concerning their reading histories and habits. Respondents…
Descriptors: Adults, Protocol Analysis, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits
Campbell, Kenneth Claude; And Others – 1988
The reading interests of children should be considered by teachers in order to increase positive attitudes toward reading, the amount of their reading, and their reading achievement. Since findings show that using trade books to teach reading has strong positive effects upon children's reading achievement, a study examined children's choices of…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Reading Interests, Reading Material Selection
Robinson, Helen M.; and others – Reading Res Quart, 1969
Descriptors: Intelligence, Learning, Physiology, Psychology
Braun, Carl – Reading Res Quart, 1969
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Discrimination Learning, Reading Interests, Reading Research
Haase, Ann Marie Bernazza; And Others – 1980
A study was conducted to analyze and compare the reading interests of adults from three educational levels. Fourteen adults in a community college reading center, 20 adults from various professional occupations, and 23 adults from a reading education class were given a reading interest inventory concerned with their reading habits and preferences…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Individual Characteristics, Reading Habits
Van Nord, Joan E. – 1980
A survey of the reading choices made by academically gifted secondary school students was conducted in 1978 to determine if these choices differed from those revealed in a survey undertaken at the same school in 1973. It was hypothesized that there would be only minor changes in patterns of interest by grade. A total of 172 students completed the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Reading Interests, Reading Research, Recreational Reading
Murphy, Richard T. – 1973
The purpose of this project, begun in July 1970, was to learn what American adults read, and what they are able to read, as they go about their ordinary activities in the course of a normal day. A national survey of the reading activities of adults was administered to 5,096 individuals. Some conclusions drawn from the survey data are as follows:…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Criterion Referenced Tests, Functional Reading, National Surveys
Bormuth, John R., Ed. – 1968
This bulletin presents four papers on how to control, manipulate, and predict the readability of printed materials. The first paper describes trends in readability brought about by research tools developed by psychologists and linguists. The second paper explores the effects of word frequency in printed materials on comprehension and concludes…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Readability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Interests
True, Judith Napier – 1974
The purpose of this study was to examine the reading interests and related activities of ninth grade students from two different economic environments. The subjects were 170 ninth grade students enrolled in two high schools of DeKalb County, Georgia. Students completed a questionnaire devised to collect data concerning parental occupations,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Economic Status, Grade 9, Reading
Johnson, Joseph C., II; And Others – 1974
This study investigated the relationship between a reader's attitude toward his instructional climate and his diversity of reading interests. The sample for the study consisted of three classes of fourth grade students chosen from a randomly selected elementary school in Greenwich, Connecticut. All subjects were administered (1) the Affective…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Reading, Reading Comprehension
