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Direct linkNeuhaus, Graham F.; Roldan, Luis W.; Boulware-Gooden, Regina; Swank, Paul R. – Reading Psychology, 2006
Parsimonious models of word recognition and reading comprehension were validated in a sample of third-grade readers. Word recognition was modeled as phonological awareness, decoding skill, and word processing rate. This model demonstrated the importance of unitization of letter clusters for efficient word reading. A curvilinear relation between…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Word Processing, Word Recognition, Reading Comprehension
Download full textDuBay, William H. – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this book is to introduce the research on readability, defined here as reading ease. The first part of the book covers how people read. A series of national literacy surveys show that the average person in the U.S. and most other countries are adults of limited reading skills. For example, the average adult in the U.S. reads at the…
Descriptors: Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Rate, Reading Research
Peer reviewedSamuels, S. Jay; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1975
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Ability
Jackson, Mark D.; McClelland, James L. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
Fast and average readers were tested on four tasks. Fast readers appear to pick up more information per fixation on structured textual material, and had a greater span of apprehension for unrelated elements. Results disagree with the view that reading speed depends solely on ability to infer missing information. (CHK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Reading Ability
Yeaman, Andrew R. J. – 1987
The effects on reading speed and comprehension of window proportions and page turning in electronic text were investigated in this study. Subjects--61 undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin--Whitewater--were administered a standardized reading text displayed as photocopied dot matrix print in simulation of electronic text. There…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Instructional Design, Intermode Differences
Rasinski, Timothy V. – 1989
A study examined adult readers' phrasing ability to determine (1) if passage difficulty was a salient variable in readers' sensitivity to phrase boundaries in reading; (2) if phrase sensitivity was an issue of concern for young adult readers; and (3) if difficulties in phrasing were due to an overabundant or an inadequate sensitivity to phrase…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Higher Education, Pattern Recognition, Reading Ability
Warner, John F.; Warner, Margaret B. – 1987
Intended to increase reading motivation in students, this book features tales of ghosts and poltergeists. The tales range from the legendary to the contemporary. These accounts of ghost stories in the book provide subject matter for thoughtful interpretation and discussion, while challenging students in four critical reading categories: main idea,…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Peer reviewedBrandt, James David – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1975
The association of Rotter's Internal-External personality dimension and improvement in reading rate and comprehension was investigated in four reading instruction treatments and a fifth control condition. The motivated instruction was found more effective for increasing reading rate, without significantly affecting reading comprehension, than the…
Descriptors: College Students, Locus of Control, Motivation, Performance
Gluck, H. Robert – J Reading Spec, 1969
Descriptors: College Students, Course Organization, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
Best, Jane – 1978
A total of 99 students from a Toronto secondary vocational school participated in a study to determine whether students who studied retail merchandising differed significantly in comprehension and reading rate from students who did not study retail merchandising. An experimental group composed of 50 merchandising students and a control group of 49…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate, Reading Research
Bryan, William A. – 1974
A longitudinal study was conducted to determine the relative effectiveness of a developmental reading course taught to students in a college of nursing. Forty-two students in the experimental group were enrolled in a ten-week developmental reading course during the first semester of their freshman year; the control group, also composed of 42…
Descriptors: Developmental Reading, Grade Point Average, Higher Education, Longitudinal Studies
Kling, Martin – 1968
Summers' annotated bibliographies of secondary reading (1963, 1964), "Review of Educational Research,""Journal of Reading," ERIC/CRIER, and "Research in Education" are listed as resources for all phases of reading. A shifting of trends in the nature and scope of research topics in secondary reading is noted, with diagnosis and treatment,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Educational Trends, Reading Processes
Hvistendahl, J. K.; Kahl, Mary R. – 1975
Many typographers have already decided that sans serif type is more pleasing to readers and more functional than traditional roman type. The findings of this study, which was designed to assess the readability of, and reader preference for, these two styles, lead to the opposite conclusion. To determine preferences, 200 subjects of various ages…
Descriptors: Design Preferences, Journalism, Media Research, Newspapers
Geyer, John J. – 1969
The role and importance of time was stressed as a key factor in an alternative theoretical viewpoint to the classic reading theory, which suggests that speed and comprehension are the two important dimensions of reading. Noting newer language processing models which detail the multiple interacting systems operating across time during the…
Descriptors: Eye Fixations, Eye Movements, Eye Voice Span, Measurement
Brett, Sue M., Ed. – English Journal, 1964
Four Project English studies, two in composition and two in reading, reflected the following research findings. The first study in composition found no correlation between knowledge of traditional grammar and performance in composition among college freshmen as measured by the STEP Essay Test and the Iowa Grammar Information Test, although the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, English Instruction, Evaluation, Mental Retardation
