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PRESTON, RALPH C.; AND OTHERS – 1963
THIS BOOK DISCUSSES FACTORS TO CONSIDER IN PREPARING A READING PROGRAM FOR A HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES COURSE. IT PRESENTS EXPLICIT COVERAGE ON WHY READING AT THIS LEVEL IN THIS SUBJECT FIELD REQUIRES GUIDANCE, HOW TO PROVIDE FOR INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN READING ABILITY, THE WAY TO READ SOCIAL STUDIES TEXTBOOKS, VOCABULARY, AND THE STIMULATION…
Descriptors: Elective Reading, High School Students, Independent Reading, Individual Differences
Juel, Connie – 1979
A study was undertaken to investigate the extent to which reading by students with varying skill levels is a text-driven or a concept-driven process; that is, it examined the conditions under which readers used context to identify words. The 72 second and third grade students in the study read target words that varied in decodability, frequency,…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Grade 2
Knighten, Katherine W. – 1979
During one term at a laboratory school, reading was systematically deleted from activites in one secondary level class and replaced with film, lecture, oral reading, slides, and other audiovisual aids. The Nelson-Denny Reading Test served as pretest-posttest for the twelve-week experiment, with 19 of 25 students completing both tests. The results…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Curriculum Guides, English Instruction
Carney, John J. – 1979
The document reviews research data, particularly group research, relating to teaching reading to the mildly retarded child. The paper examines the following areas: word recognition/meaning (context, decoding/phonics, sight words); letter acquisition and discrimination; comparative studies of methods and techniques; reading profiles of retarded…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Jones, Howard J.; Smolen, Diane L. – 1979
The Reading Progress Scale (RPS) was administered to 4,714 students from 46 courses ranging from accounting to welding at Lansing Community College in two studies conducted from fall 1975 to spring 1976. The scale which assesses reading skills sought to answer two research questions: (1) is the RPS a good indicator of student persistence in a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Courses, Grade Prediction
Cardish, Edna Catherine – 1971
One hundred fifty-one urban ninth grade students participated in an investigation of the effect of differentiated content in two congruent tests of reading. A congruent test was constructed by substituting information relevant to junior high school students within the parameters of a nonrelevant, standardized state test of reading. By maintaining…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Doctoral Dissertations, Minimum Competency Testing, Reading Ability
Askins, Billy Earl – 1967
The problem of the study was the effectiveness of three teaching techniques -- lecture-demonstration procedure supplemented with the programed textbook, autoinstructional procedure using only the programed textbook, and the conventional lecture-demonstration procedure. The control-experimental group method was used to collect the data from 110…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accounting, Administrator Qualifications, Aptitude
Greaney, Vincent; Quinn, John – 1978
Diaries showing how 920 Irish fifth graders spent their leisure time on three designated days within one week augmented data about the children's personal, school, and home characteristics to aid in determining the primary factors related to the amount and type of leisure time reading. The children reported spending a median time of 60 minutes per…
Descriptors: Elective Reading, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Factor Analysis
Mosenthal, Peter – 1977
Metacognition refers to an individual's knowledge concerning his/her own cognitive processes. Children's metacognitive strategies were examined in a study predicated upon R.J. Spiro's hypothesis that subjects tend to reproduce (literally recall) text information in formal situations and to reconstruct (inferentially recall) it in informal…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary Education
Jablonsky, Adelaide, Comp. – 1975
One hundred and nineteen documents comprise this ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education comprehensive annotated bibliography of doctoral dissertations on reading and language arts curriculum for minority groups. Documents were assembled through a computer search using the Datrix System of University Microfilms and through a manual search of the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingual Students, Black Dialects, Black Literature
Ausburn, Lynna J.; And Others – 1976
An individuals ability to read is heavily influenced by the style in which he perceives letters and words. A study investigated the effect of the following two elements of perception: (1) field independence--the degree to which the subject is able to distinguish symbols and characters despite the complexity of the background; and (2)…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Educational Research, High School Students, Perception
Rosenkranz, Catherine
The study was designed to determine whether cloze procedure could be used in adult literacy programs for students reading at or above the fourth grade level by investigating the procedure's: acceptability for the students, utility in matching students to reading material, and substitutability for standardized tests. Eighty-five Rhode Island…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Reading Programs
Sherwood, Walter – 1975
This paper deals with the vocabulary problems encountered by advanced ESL students. While beginning and intermediate texts tend to control vocabulary and adapt reading selections to the learner, advanced students are usually forced to confront unabridged texts. Reading is a way to increase vocabulary, but a lack of vocabulary makes the reading…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Dictionaries
Entwisle, Doris R.; Hayduk, Leslie A. – 1975
This study examined: (1) the expectations of black and white lower class first graders for their own performance in reading, arithmetic, and conduct; (2) racial differences in the relationship between parental expectations and IQ; (3) correlation between the absences and lateness of first graders with reading and arithmetic marks and with parental…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior, Blacks, Elementary Education
Harrison, Helene W. – 1972
Bilingual classes in grades K-5 in the San Marcos and Harlandale (Texas) school districts comprise this bilingual education program. Most of the pupils come from Spanish-speaking homes with low socioeconomic-educational background; however, a certain proportion of the San Marcos pupils are Anglos. Program objectives include preventing educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Educational Testing, Elementary Education
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