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De Santi, Roger J. – Forum for Reading, 1983
The primary purpose for reading is to derive the meaning of an author's message, which has been transmitted through print, as it relates to the reader's personal need to go from a point of lesser to greater information. Within the college reading improvement program, the many purposes surrounding reading should intersect to form the basis for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Program Effectiveness, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Pinette, Clayton A., Ed.; Smith, R. Kent, Ed. – Forum for Reading, 1977
Intended for teachers of reading on the two-year college level, this journal discusses research on the effects of assignments on recognition memory and research on the Nelson-Denny Reading Test as a predictor of college grades in English and psychology. Articles also deal with methods for teaching developmental reading, a program for training and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Developmental Reading, Paraprofessional Personnel, Prediction
Pinette, Clayton A., Ed.; Smith, R. Kent, Ed. – Forum for Reading, 1977
This journal is intended for teachers of reading on the two-year college level. Articles included in this issue are: "A Competency Based Approach to College Reading Improvement Programs,""Drumming Up Trade for College Reading Programs,""Instructional Techniques for Developmental Reading,""College Reading W.A.R." (on the image of college reading…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Developmental Reading, Humor, Reading Improvement
Pinette, Clayton, Ed.; And Others – Forum for Reading, 1980
Sponsored by a special interest group of the International Reading Association, the focus of this journal issue is on college reading improvement. Chapter titles include "College Level Developmental Reading and Study Skills Programs: Survey Report and Overview"; "Providing Assistance to College Science Teachers"; "Sitting in on Doctors Pompous and…
Descriptors: College Science, Community Colleges, Content Area Reading, Developmental Studies Programs
Hall, Christine – Forum for Reading, 1989
Describes an informal inventory that gives underprepared college freshmen the opportunity to express their own perceptions of their reading needs and interests. Finds that students are most concerned with reading rate. Suggests that speed-reading activities play to students' interests while at the same time giving practice in comprehension skills.…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Interest Inventories, Reading Attitudes
