We investigated whether high-skill readers skip more words than low-skill readers as a result of parafoveal processing differences based on reading skill. We manipulated foveal load and word length, two variables that strongly influence word skipping, and measured reading skill using the Nelson-Denny Reading Test. We found that reading skill did…

Millions of adults in the United States lack the necessary literacy skills for most living wage jobs. For students from adult learning classes, we used a lexical decision task to measure their knowledge of words and we used a decision-making model (Ratcliff's, 1978, diffusion model) to abstract the mechanisms underlying their performance from…

Based on the findings of a recent three-year study by Dominican University's Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, the authors can confirm what many librarians have long suspected: students who take part in their local library's summer reading program significantly improve their reading skills. This article describes the results of…

A study investigated the relationship between attendance and reading ability and the difference in attendance or reading ability attributed to gender or race. The measuring instrument was the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests. An interracial group comprised of 33 students, 18 males and 15 females, was placed in a semester-long reading improvement…

Ohio's Statewide Needs Assessment is designed to provide baseline data about students' learning in cognitive areas. Over several years, students at various grade levels will be assessed. The areas to be assessed, as well as the grades of the students to be assessed, will be considered and advised upon by the ESEA Title III State Advisory Council.…

AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF READING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR USE IN READING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS WAS COMPILED FOR TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS IN WAYNE COUNTY SCHOOLS, DETROIT, MICHIGAN, TO MAKE THEM AWARE OF ALL THE READING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AVAILABLE AND TO ENABLE THEM TO EVALUATE THESE MATERIALS IN TERMS OF LOCAL NEED. THE MATERIALS…