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Direct linkKlauda, Susan Lutz; Guthrie, John T. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
This study examined the relationships of 3 levels of reading fluency--the individual word, the syntactic unit, and the whole passage--to reading comprehension among 278 5th graders heterogeneous in reading ability. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that reading fluency at each level related uniquely to performance on a standardized reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Word Recognition, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedGuthrie, John T.; Kirsch, Irwin S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1987
Reading tasks frequently performed by electronics engineers and technicians were identified and simulated with test items in four domains: (1) comprehending articles; (2) locating information in schematics; (3) locating information in articles; and (4) locating information in manuals. Factor analyses revealed two factors: comprehension and…
Descriptors: Adults, Electronic Technicians, Engineers, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedGuthrie, John T. – Journal of Reading, 1981
Concludes that valid reading tests are needed for adults and should be designed differently than tests for academic or school-related reading. (AEA)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adults, Job Performance, Minimum Competency Testing
Download full textGuthrie, John T. – 1974
This current annual report describes the progress made in the following aspects of the organizational plan; the identification of a model of reading which includes a description of subskills that may be present in skilled readers and are acquired by most normal readers, the construction of criterion referenced tests to measure each of these…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewedKirsch, Irwin; Guthrie, John T. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1977
After reviewing the literature on functional literacy, proposes that new measures be developed and classified according to the practical information to be obtained and the decisions to be made from them. (AA)
Descriptors: Adults, Elementary Secondary Education, Functional Literacy, Literacy
Peer reviewedGuthrie, John T.; Seifert, Mary – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
A highly reproducible scale of difficulty of word identification tasks was identified for both good and poor readers: consonant-vowel combinations and short vowel words were learned first. Long vowel words, special rule words, and nonsense words were more difficult. Reading instruction should parallel this sequence since it follows learning…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
