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McNinch, George – 1970
A study was conducted to determine the relationship between auditory perceptual skills and first-grade reading success when readiness and intelligence measures were used in conjunction with auditory skills assessments. Sex differences were also considered. Six boys and six girls were randomly selected from each of 10 first-grade classrooms.…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Grade 1
Malmquist, Eve – 1969
Swedish children, who receive extensive readiness activities in their first months in school, are taught through a diagnostic approach which involves observation, diagnosis, and treatment of difficulty by the classroom teacher. Results of a 6-year longitudinal study of the system revealed (1) the degree of success achieved by a program of remedial…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Longitudinal Studies, Observation, Predictive Measurement
Rodman, Joan I. – 1973
The Southeast Kansas Demonstration Child Development Center was opened March 27, 1972 to provide day care services for working mothers. A research project in this Child Development Center was carried out to evaluate the children's intellectual growth and development in a planned educational pre-school curriculum. Ten children from the Child…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Control Groups, Curriculum Design
Mikulecky, Larry; Haugh, Rita – 1980
This guide provides both a rationale and explicit, practical suggestions to help the high school business education teacher teach students the reading skills necessary to handle skills- and concept-oriented reading materials. It consists of four sections. The first section, which provides a rationale for reading instruction in business education…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Accounting, Annotated Bibliographies, Bookkeeping
Maloch, Beth, Ed.; Hoffman, James V., Ed.; Schallert, Diane L., Ed.; Fairbanks, Colleen M., Ed.; Worthy, Jo, Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2005
This volume presents the 54th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (NRC). The 2004 NRC conference, set in San Antonio, took place against a political backdrop in which the nature and substance of literacy research has become suspect. Given the current state of politically-driven research agendas, the focus of the 54th annual NRC…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Conferences (Gatherings), Reading Comprehension, Speech Communication
Gunderson, Doris V. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
This bulletin is the first in a series of summaries of research conducted in reading from 1955 to 1960. The publication includes both published and unpublished research during the 5-year period. The published research has been compiled largely from studies reported in educational periodicals. The unpublished research was made available through a…
Descriptors: Educational History, Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary School Students, Reading Research
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Sclater, Jennifer; Sicoly, Fiore; Abrami, Philip C.; Wade, C. Anne – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2006
The current investigation was an exploration of the first year of a multi-year project designed to provide every Grade 3 to Grade 11 student throughout an English school board in Quebec with a laptop computer. Data were collected from 403 elementary and 270 secondary students from the experimental school board and also from 330 students in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Laptop Computers, Access to Computers, Computer Uses in Education
Hodges, Carol A. – 1988
Criticisms leveled at readiness tests in general by a variety of early childhood groups and at reading tests in general by reading researchers certainly appear to be valid for traditional paper and pencil reading readiness tests. These reading readiness tests have not kept pace with advances in early literacy instructional techniques, such as…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Classroom Observation Techniques, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading
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SLOBODZIAN, EVELYN B. – 1968
THE ILLINOIS TEST OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ABILITIES, A TEST DESIGNED FOR CHILDREN AGED 3-9, IS OF VALUE TO THE KINDERGARTEN OR FIRST-GRADE TEACHER IN DIAGNOSING FOR THE PURPOSE OF REMEDIATION, ESPECIALLY IN COMMUNITIES WHERE DISADVANTAGED AREAS EXIST. FROM ITS USE, THE TEACHER CAN DETERMINE BACKGROUND INADEQUACIES, DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE LEVEL OF A…
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary School Students, Individual Development
Horn, Thomas D.; Hernandez, Carmela – 1976
This paper contains a critical evaluation of the research conducted by O.L. Davis and Carl Personke on the use of reading readiness tests in English and Spanish for Spanish speaking elementary school pupils. Davis and Personke indicated that, when Spanish speaking first graders were tested in both English and Spanish, most of the differences were…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
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Dorn, Marilyn – Lutheran Education, 1977
This article discusses ways of diagnosing reading problems in children and the means of correcting them. (JD)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Educational Therapy, Learning Problems, Primary Education
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Nagle, Richard J. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1979
A sample of 176 first-grade children was tested on the Metropolitan Readiness Tests, 1976 Edition (MRT), during the initial month of school and was retested eight months later on the Stanford Achievement Test. Results demonstrated substantial validity of the MRT for predicting first-grade achievement. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 1
Tomko, Diane Marie – 1984
To assess the impact of public library preschool activities on children's reading readiness skills, a criterion reference test of reading readiness development was administered to 106 children entering kindergarten. Questionnaires were given to both parents and children to determine their uses and views of the library in their town. Comparison of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Early Experience, Influences, Kindergarten Children
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Public Schools. – 1977
This packet is designed for use by persons conducting staff-development workshops on reading readiness and beginning reading. Organized according to an "interrelatedness concept of readiness," the materials cover six interdependent factors: physical, perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, psychological, and experimental/environmental. The…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Educational Objectives, Language Arts
Lee, Dorris M.; Allen, R. V. – 1963
This book discusses a plan for "learning to read through experience." It is a plan for developing reading ability as an integral part of the development of all the communication skills. It is intended to build on and to continue to provide individual experiences for each child while increasing the common group experiences. Although the plan…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Communication Skills, Diagnostic Teaching, Group Testing
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