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Download full textHaberlandt, Karl – 1989
A study was conducted to evaluate reading strategies by contrasting regression results of 10 fast versus 10 slow readers. At the word level the lag effect was evaluated. At the text level, the few-argument strategy versus the many-argument strategy and the physical and the syntactic strategies were evaluated. The absolute proportion of the lag…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Multiple Regression Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
Bullard, Peggy; McGee, Glenn – 1984
The Fairview Reading Curriculum Based Assessment (CBA), which was used in a cross categorical elementary school resource program at Fairview Elementary School in Darien, Illinois, is described. The test measures oral reading accuracy, rate and comprehension on passages taken directly from the two basal reading series used in the school. As the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Difficulties
Air Univ., Gunter AFS, Ala. Extension Course Inst. – 1982
One of six related documents, this publication contains a U.S. Air Force course designed to help students improve their reading skills. The chapters contain lessons on reading habits and how they affect the reader, exercises to identify one's reading speed, an improvement program, exercises to improve eye movement and to reduce eye fixations,…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Extension Education, Postsecondary Education, Reading Comprehension
Lamberg, Walter J. – 1976
This study involved the use of interspersed questions as an instructional procedure to aid improvement in reading efficiency. Subjects, 86 college students enrolled in an undergraduate course in methods for teaching secondary reading, practiced (five times) reading nonfiction narrative selections, trying to increase their reading speed. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Questioning Techniques, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension
Chabot, Robert J.; And Others – 1977
The development of rapid word processing skills was investigated using a visual search task. Visual displays of varying orthographic structure (words, pseudowords, nonwords) were presented to college students and to kindergarten, second-grade, and fourth-grade children. Response latencies were measured as subjects indicated whether a previously…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education, Higher Education
Hampshire, Barry E. – New Outlook for the Blind, 1975
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Exceptional Child Education, Literature Reviews
Santeusanio, Richard P. – J Reading Spec, 1969
Descriptors: Bibliographies, College Students, Information Sources, Reading Comprehension
Hankins, Huana; Thompson, Richard A. – 1974
An investigation was undertaken to measure objectively children's eye movements to determine whether the effect of fatigue of the average school day decreases eye movement efficiency, suggesting that children might benefit more from reading instruction in the morning than in the afternoon. Using a photoelectric instrument designed to graph eye…
Descriptors: Eye Fixations, Eye Movements, Grade 2, Primary Education
McMahon, Margaret L. – 1980
First and third grade children's ability to coordinate reading and listening was studied using a "mismatch detection" task. A total of 15 first grade children and 15 third grade children of average to below average reading ability read printed texts while listening to recordings of the same texts, in which extraneous spoken words were…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Discrimination Learning, Listening Skills, Primary Education
SAMUELS, S. JAY – 1966
AN EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF 2-WORD ASSOCIATIONS IN LEARNING TO READ THE SECOND WORD OF A 2-WORD CHAIN. ABOUT 45 FIRST AND SECOND GRADE STUDENTS WERE CHOSEN AS SUBJECTS AFTER PRETESTING TO INSURE THEY WERE ABLE TO READ THE FIRST (STIMULUS) WORD BUT NOT THE SECOND (RESPONSE) WORD OF EACH WORD PAIR USED IN THE STUDY. EIGHT…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Learning Experience, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
Mason, Jana M.; Kendall, Janet R. – 1978
Two experiments were conducted using nine- through twelve-year-old readers to determine how they differed from adults in their ability to identify meaningful units in a written passage, how they were affected by sentences of increasing difficulty, and whether they would be aided by either shorter sentences or meaningful segmentation of sentences.…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension
British Council, London (England). English-Teaching Information Centre. – 1973
This bibliography cites bibliographies dealing with reading instruction and reading problems, and books in each of four areas: general reading, reading and the slow learning child, children with special reading difficulties, and faster reading. Relevant periodicals are also cited. Entries include both American and European publications, most…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Bibliographies, Language Handicaps, Reading
McBride, Vearl G.; And Others – 1975
Intended for teacher educators, the document provides four presentations on the methods and effectiveness of the Braille Speed Reading Institute. A general background of the Institute by A. Ensign traces the development of the project from a request made by a teacher of the blind and partially sighted to the completion and finalization of details…
Descriptors: Blindness, Braille, Exceptional Child Research, Inservice Teacher Education
Oliastro, Louis A. – 1970
Increasing speed alone will not insure reading success, the author stated. It is important that students have the necessary reading and study skills and that they also develop good habits in both. The author mentioned the SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review) and the OK4R Formula. He also introduced a new study formula, I, PW, R, R,…
Descriptors: College Students, Course Organization, Educational Needs, Reading Rate
Holmes, Jack A.; Singer, Harry – 1966
The major focus of this investigation was concerned with discovering differences in the substrata-factor patterns which underlie speed and/or power of reading in various known groups: boys versus girls, bright versus dull, fast versus slow readers, and powerful versus nonpowerful readers. Subjects were 211 boys and 189 girls selected at random…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, High School Students, Models, Reading Comprehension
