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Download full textGrant, Linda; Rothenberg, James – 1981
Qualitative methods were used to analyze the social environments--or webs of interaction--in reading groups of varying ability levels. Ethnographic observations were conducted for 15 to 30 hours in each of eight first and second grade classrooms with ability-divided reading groups. A code scheme was developed to categorize the quantity and quality…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Grade 1
Hansen, Jacqueline – 1979
A small-scale investigation of the school performance and progress of Mexican Americans in Colorado during the 1970's indicated that the overall achievement pattern was similar to one noted for Hispanics nationally and in the Southwest: a consistently low and regularly decreasing performance in standardized tests of math and reading after grade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis
Efurd, Martha – 1978
A study involving 81 freshmen nursing students at Westark Community College was conducted during 1975-76 to determine the role reading proficiency plays in the academic success of nursing students and the extent to which a developmental reading course improves reading capability. Using the Nelson-Denny Reading Test, student vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Grade Point Average, Nursing Education
Tate, Richard L. – 1980
This paper reviews multivariate hypothesis testing, interval estimation, and discriminant analysis procedures for an aptitude-treatment interaction (ATI) analysis and illustrates the procedures with data from a large experimental study of science education at the secondary school level. The treatment variable of interest is time allowed for study…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Discriminant Analysis, Hypothesis Testing
Bulcock, J. W.; Beebe, M. J. – 1980
The "primacy of reading" hypothesis as the explanation for the high correlation between children's competencies in literacy and numeracy is rejected in this paper. Instead, a "primacy of speech perception" hypothesis is examined. It is suggested that analysis-by-synthesis speech recognition procedures are acquired in early childhood and that the…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes
DELLA-PIANA, GABRIEL; AND OTHERS – 1967
A SMALL SAMPLE PILOT PROJECT WHICH DEMONSTRATED A TREATMENT EFFECTIVENESS AND SUGGESTED FUTURE LINES FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF PARENT TRAINING PROGRAMS IS DESCRIBED. THE MAJOR HYPOTHESIS TESTED WAS THAT PUPILS WHOSE PARENTS WERE INVOLVED IN A TRAINING PROGRAM WOULD SHOW GREATER REGRESSED GAINS IN READING SKILLS THAN PUPILS WITH PARENTS NOT…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Oral Reading, Parent Education, Parent Participation
CARTERETTE, EDWARD C.; JONES, MARGARET H. – 1965
THE EXTENT TO WHICH REDUNDANCY OF LANGUAGE AFFECTS THE DIFFICULTY OF LEARNING VERBAL MATERIALS FOR CHILDREN OF SEVERAL AGES WAS STUDIED. SAMPLES OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE APPROPRIATE TO CHILDREN OF FIRST, THIRD, AND FIFTH GRADES AND ADULTS (AS REPRESENTED BY JUNIOR COLLEGE STUDENTS) FROM SIMILAR SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS WERE COLLECTED BY MEANS OF A TAPE…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition
Henderson, Edmund H., Ed.; Beers, James W., Ed. – 1980
The emphasis of this book is on theory and research in spelling. It also includes practical information for the classroom teacher by noting teaching principles and generalizations that can guide spelling instruction. The book contains 12 chapters dealing with the following topics: (1) developmental concepts of word; (2) what a word is; (3)…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Ramsey, Wallace Z., Ed. – 1967
A compilation is made of reports from a conference dealing with workable administrative practices which provide for individual differences. The nature of individual differences as they operate in reading instruction is defined, and various dimensions, such as growth ages, sex differences, intelligence, cognitive abilities and styles, are discussed…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Classes (Groups of Students), Elementary Schools, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Norton, Robert Ellsworth – 1967
The purpose of the study was to experimentally test the theory that programed instruction can satisfactorily teach psychomotor tasks which primarily require the learning of cognitive knowledge in order to properly utilize motor skills already possessed. A programed unit on regrinding drills was selected, and a dexterity test and self-instructional…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Autoinstructional Aids, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Samuels, S. Jay, Ed. – 1978
The papers in this volume represent both theory and application in reading research. The topics are as follows: research on programs for poor readers; a method for teaching children who have reading difficulties even though they have learned decoding skills; a decade of research on reading and learning disabilities; children's understanding of…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment, Learning Disabilities, Linguistics
Greeley, Michael F. – 1976
This report evaluated a teacher education program designed to improve the quality of instruction for low income students in New York City. A major goal of the program was to increase student reading and English fluency skills. Teachers for the program were trained on college campuses. Each participating school designed its training program to suit…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Grade 3, Grade 4
Schulman, Rosalind; Steg, Doreen – 1973
This pilot study investigated the projected long-term economic effects of using the Edison Responsive Environment (ERE) machine in teaching 3- and 4-year-old preschool children. The ERE can be programmed in a variety of ways (to talk , play games, read aloud, show pictures and take dictation). The program developed for this study had four phases:…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Factors, Economic Research
Dowling, E. D.; Lash, P. L.
The purpose of the study was to determine what factors affect success in passing the General Education Development (GED) exam. Using data gathered between 1960 and 1972 from 200 successful GED students at the Mattoon Area Adult Education Center, Ill., the authors developed frequency distribution charts to characterize the students and scattergrams…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Age, Arithmetic
Springer, Judith Ann – 1975
The focus of this study is on the possible effects of phonological interference on the reading achievement of Spanish-speaking Puerto Rican first graders. Specifically, the study explored the relationship between standard English auditory discrimination and first-grade reading achievement. Subjects for the study were 32 female and 20 male students…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Grade 1
