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Nolen, Patricia A.; Mathews, Paula B. – 1981
The reading recall protocols of 24 tenth grade and 24 twelfth grade students were used in a study that investigated the relationship of average reading ability and high school grade placement to recall of expository text with adversative and attributive structures. Two test passages were written in an adversative structure with contrasting…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Grade 10
Download full textAllington, Richard L.; Strange, Michael – 1977
The purpose of this study was to determine whether good and poor readers of the same age levels differed in their performance on a task which required the integration of semantic-syntactic and grapho-phonic information. Fifteen fourth grade good readers, 15 fourth grade poor readers, and 15 second grade good readers read six sentences that had one…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Grade 2
Bartlett, Elsa Jaffe – 1976
The Distar and Open Court reading programs illustrate contrasting definitions and emphases of reading instruction that are part of a larger concern--how children are expected to use their literacy skills. Both programs teach phonics, but they define phonics in different ways. Each relies on teacher-directed group instruction, but Open Court was…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Children, Comparative Analysis, Conference Reports
Dutrow, Anita Marceca; Houston, Charles A. – 1981
A study was conducted at Dabney S. Lancaster Community College (DSLCC) to examine the relationships between reading achievement, academic major, selected personality variables, grade point average (GPA), and scores on the College Guidance and Placement Test (CGPT). The Iowa Silent Reading Test, the Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes, and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Correlation, Grade Point Average
Ann Arbor Public Schools, MI. – 1980
Teachers from the Martin Luther King Junior Elementary School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, completed a black vernacular inservice program during the 1979-80 academic year. This final report of the program was submitted to the superintendent of schools in compliance with a court order and is divided into four sections. The overview summarizes the…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Case Studies, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
PDF pending restorationAdams, Marianne Lehr, Ed. – 1978
A manual for use in training French and Spanish language examiners at the Foreign Service Institute is presented here. After a discussion of the history of the language proficiency test and of the testing procedure and evaluation techniques, the following topics are covered: (1) language proficiency ratings based on the absolute criterion of the…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), French, Interviews, Language Fluency
Pinette, Clayton, Ed.; Smith, Kent, Ed. – 1978
Five articles concerning college reading instruction are included in this special interest journal. Bill Fowler and Barry M. Kroll investigate hidden factors in tests of reading comprehension, revealing that most conventional tests have question-design weaknesses allowing students to perform successfully by the use of test wisdom alone. Imogene…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Postsecondary Education, Program Evaluation, Reading Ability
Anders, Patricia L.; Mitchell, Judy Nichols – 1978
A total of 373 teachers participated in a study designed to compare the reading attitudes, awareness, and abilities of elementary school and secondary school teachers. The subjects were administered four instruments to measure their reading abilities, reading habits, perceptions of the reading process (including perceptions of their own reading…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Silvestro, John R. – 1978
The efficacy of second dentition, the number of erupted teeth, as an index in assessing school readiness was examined. A series of cognitive, achievement, and social-emotional instruments were administered to a group of 41 first- and 43 second-grade children. The tests used in this study were: Devereux Elementary School Behavior Rating Scale,…
Descriptors: Age, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Dental Evaluation
Dea, Wendy Anne – 1978
Instruction in one eighth-grade history teacher's classes varied between use and nonuse of vocabulary recognition materials for difficult words to study the possible effect of such materials on test scores. The vocabulary recognition materials were used to augment four chapters of the history textbook that the students studied, while four chapters…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Content Area Reading, Grade 8, History Instruction
Sticht, Thomas G. – 1978
Two focuses of a discussion of literacy and vocational competence should be the need for a more profound understanding of literacy and the relevance of that understanding for studying reading in vocational settings. A developmental model of the acquisition of literacy considers reading a second signaling system for speech. People who become…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competence, Employment Qualifications, Informal Reading Inventories
JENNINGS, LEE B. – 1967
ALTHOUGH TRANSLATION, A SKILL NOT CONSIDERED USEFUL IN A BASIC AUDIOLINGUAL MODERN LANGUAGE PROGRAM, HAS BEEN DISPENSED WITH, READING, ANOTHER SPECIALIZED SKILL NOT AUTOMATICALLY ACQUIRED ALONG WITH THE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE ORALLY, APPEARS TO BE LESS CONTROVERSIAL. IF, THEN, READING CONTINUES AS A GOAL OF LANGUAGE TEACHING, IT MUST BE TESTED NOT…
Descriptors: German, Learning Theories, Modern Languages, Reading
ROBERTS, HERMESE E. – 1961
THE LANGUAGE ARTS LABORATORY WAS ESTABLISHED TO IMPROVE READING ABILITY AND OTHER LANGUAGE ARTS SKILLS AS AN AID IN THE PREVENTION OF DROPOUTS. THE LABORATORY WAS OPERATED ON A SUMMER SCHEDULE WITH A FLEXIBLE PROGRAM OF FROM 45 MINUTES TO 2 1/2 HOURS DAILY. ALL PUPILS WERE 14 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER, AND EXPRESSED A DESIRE TO IMPROVE THEIR READING…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Dropouts, Educational Media, Language Acquisition
Sposato, Susan E. – 1979
The purpose of this study was to determine if the comprehension of 33 second grade students on a standardized test is the same whether the test is read silently or orally. The students silently read Level B, Form 1 of the "Gates MacGinitie Reading Test"; during the month that followed, individual students read Level B, Form 2, of the test orally,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Intermode Differences
New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Wellington. – 1979
Topics and issues included in this packet of educational research information are presented in the form of separate news sheets or single-sheet essays. Particular emphasis is placed on improving communication between New Zealand teachers and Polynesian and Maori schoolchildren and parents. Guidesheets designed to aid teachers in assessing student…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Bilingual Education, Child Welfare, Communication Skills
