The present study tested the effects of assisted-repeated reading on four first-grade students--a special education student, an at-risk, student, an English as a Second Language (ESL) student, and a general education student. The students engaged in echo and assisted-repeated reading two times a week for eight weeks. Each session lasted between 10…

The purpose of this study was to determine the components of working memory (WM) that underlie less skilled readers' comprehension and word recognition difficulties. Performance of 3 less skilled reading subgroups--children with reading disabilities (RD) in both word recognition and comprehension; children with comprehension deficits only; and…

The study investigates measurement properties of the reading assessment tasks used in the IEA 1991 Reading Literacy (RL) study and the Progress in International Readings Study (PIRLS) 2001 study. The analysis is based on data from the Swedish PIRLS study, comprising 16,676 students in grades 3 and 4. As an extension to the basic design, not only…

This edition of "NAEPFacts" highlights findings from the first attempt by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to measure elementary students' oral reading on a large scale. This article presents data on 1,136 fourth graders' oral fluency and its relationship to 3 other aspects of reading ability: comprehension,…

Presenting techniques for using the whole mind, this book describes PhotoReading, a reading program that teaches not just how to read faster, but how to learn at speeds many times faster than before. The book notes that PhotoReading teaches readers how to "mentally photograph" the written page directly into their "other-than-conscious" mind,…

This paper reviews the literature on the effects of training with time compressed speech (TCS) plus text on reading speed, vocabulary, and comprehension. The first section of the paper presents an introduction and outline of the findings. The second section summarizes and critiques 15 studies on training with TCS published from 1954 to 1985. The…

A study examined the relative effectiveness of repeated readings and listening-while-reading in promoting reading fluency. Subjects, 20 third grade students in a community in the southeastern United States, of high, average, and low reading levels, had their reading fluency measured in two cycles: subjects who repeatedly read a passage in the…

This report argues that the Mean Gaze Durations or eye movement records used by M. A. Just and P. A. Carpenter to develop a model of reading comprehension are an inappropriate measure of processing time. An alternative approach called Read to Right of Gaze (RRG-1), which assumes that more than one word can be read during a fixation, is recommended…

The study involving three blind elementary school, six blind high school, and four blind college students was designed to establish oral reading rates and oral reading error rates for Ss reading conventional braille volumes and brailled materials with the Digi-cassette, an electronic braille reading and writing machine. Data suggested several…

THE EFFICIENCY OF MACHINE VERSUS NONMACHINE INSTRUCTION IN READING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS FOR ADULTS WAS APPRAISED. PRETESTS AND POST-TESTS WERE USED TO MEASURE RATE, VOCABULARY, AND COMPREHENSION FOR 60 RANDOMLY SELECTED ADULTS ENROLLED IN FOUR CLASSES. SUBJECTS FOLLOWED INDIVIDUALIZED PROCEDURE WITH PRESCRIBED MATERIALS, PREPARED HOME ASSIGNMENTS,…

THE USES OF OPERANT CONDITIONING TECHNIQUES IN A COLLEGE READING AND STUDY SKILLS CENTER ARE DISCUSSED IN RELATION TO RESEARCH FINDINGS. OPERANT TECHNIQUES WERE USEFUL IN GATHERING DATA ON STUDENT BEHAVIOR AS WELL AS IN INCREASING THE PRECISION OF THE DATA GATHERED. THE EFFECT OF THESE TECHNIQUES ON READING AND HANDWRITING RATE ARE DISCUSSED AND…

The eye movements of two college graduates were monitored in a study of flexible reading, which is defined as the ability to adjust one's rate and approach to reading according to the purpose of reading, the difficulty of the material, and one's knowledge of the subject matter. The subjects were told to read an excerpt from a tenth grade biology…

College-adult reading research trends are discussed. The reading process; the influence of vision, perception, and personality; and program outcomes are noted as major trends of past studies, and a list of mistaken assumptions in these earlier studies is given. Present research shifts to the study of the role of both teacher and student…

Using time-compressed speech methodology, a program was developed which attempted to improve the reading rate and comprehension of U.S. Navy personnel with low reading ability. Four groups of trainees were tested. One group read training text while simultaneously listening to a speeded auditory version of the same text. A second group listened to…

In this study, rate controlled speech is defined as speech that is reproduced in less time or in more time than the time required for its original production. The particular comprehension skills of interest were: the ability to detect main ideas; the ability to determine supporting details; and the ability to draw conclusions. These skills were…