Problems in the reading and study skills of students in City University of New York (CUNY) community colleges are the subject of this report. Questionnaires asking for information on factors related to these problems were completed by 496 CUNY students. Results indicate that, among other things: (1) there is a high correlation between reading and…

This study concerns the development of a measure of educational need and its use in a State school support formula in New York. The study assumes that public schools should operate positively to further equality of opportunity and that schools are able to affect achievement levels and rates of learning. The present State-aid formula is not…

Six formulas designed to predict reading capacity were compared by correlating each with actual reading performance. Two of the formulas, the Science Research Associates Tests of General Ability (TOGA) and the Harris Formula, are based on mental age only; the third, the Los Angeles Formula, employs both mental and chronological age; the fourth,…

To investigate the underlying factors of visual discrimination, memory, rule abstraction, language, and serial ordering in reading success, 79 poor and 65 good deaf readers were administered a battery of tests. Poor readers were deficient in lower-order visual discrimination and memory abilities; higher-order visual discrimination skills were…

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the ability of an auditory perceptual technique to enhance prediction of later reading success of children of kindergarten and first grade age. A group of kindergarten age students and a group of first grade age students were selected as subjects. The Revised Auditory Test was used to assess…

This study was concerned with the use of a large quantity of paperback books in a school reading program and the effect of such a saturated book environment on the reading of individual students. The oral reading miscues made by 27 fifth graders prior to and immediately following their exposure to a Ludington Reading Room which housed over 3,000…

The purpose of this study was to describe the effect that providing a specific purpose for reading a selection had on the reading behavior exhibited by subjects with different reading backgrounds, and on their comprehension of the material read. The subjects in this study were selected from the fifth grade in two schools on the basis of their…

Reported is a study to identify the degree to which students with reading difficulties could perform if provided with supplementary audiovisual instruction programs. Fifty-two seventh grade students enrolled in an individualized science program developed by the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS) were the participants in the study. The…

Reviewed in the second continuation request report for a Title III grant are 2-year activities and third year needs of the Model Early Childhood Learning Program (MECLP) involving 437 disadvantaged prekindergarten and kindergarten children in 10 classes (five schools) in Baltimore. Program goals are given to be achieved by students in reading…

This study examines the relationships between reading comprehension and listening comprehension among second graders with regard to age, reading ability, and intelligence. One form of the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test was administered to 66 second graders to measure reading comprehension and a revised alternate form of the same test measured…

The purpose of this investigation was to describe the relationship of perceptual-motor abilities as measured on the Purdue Perceptual-Motor Survey (PMS) to reading. All children who came to the University of Georgia Reading Clinic and who met the criteria of age, grade, and intelligence range were administered the PMS. The obtained scores on the…

The basic purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the Ray Reading Methods Test in predicting the most suitable method of reading instruction for first-grade children. The subjects for this study were 163 first-grade students in thirteen school districts. All the subjects had scored below the thirtieth percentile on the…

This book is intended to help prospective teachers, students in teacher training schools, and in-service teachers to improve high school and junior high school students' reading in their various subject-content classes. Chapters one through six and thirteen through seventeen contain material that applies to all academic subjects in the secondary…

The purpose of this study was to determine if selected mental, mathematical, reading, and personality assessments of sixth-grade pupils could predict high achievers in mathematical verbal problem solving. The subjects were 112 sixth graders, 56 classified as high achievers in mathematical verbal problem solving and 56 classified as low achievers…

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there were significant differences in the reading attitude and reading achievement of first grade children in open concept classes which utilized an individualized language experience approach to reading as compared to children who were instructed in basal series in more formal classes. The…