This study examines the stages of information processing during a single eye fixation, by overloading or disrupting short-term memory. Ten navy enlistees identified tones that were emitted at sporadic times, while they read general-interest passages through an eye view monitor. Each trial ended with a ten-item test to ensure that all subjects…

To investigate the dramatic reduction in the discriminating power of reading tests with children above the ages of 10-11 years, a test was devised based on the GAP test, itself based on the cloze technique shown to be effective in assessing reader comprehension. The GAP tests requires the reader to supply words deleted from a passage of continuous…

This study involved the use of interspersed questions as an instructional procedure to aid improvement in reading efficiency. Subjects, 86 college students enrolled in an undergraduate course in methods for teaching secondary reading, practiced (five times) reading nonfiction narrative selections, trying to increase their reading speed. The…

Teacher verbal behaviors following oral reading errors of primary grade children were the focus of this study. The incidence, location, and type of verbal interruption behaviors that occured during classroom reading instruction were contrasted for high-and low-ability readers. Results for 20 teachers indicated that they were more likely to…

Eighty-four students in a graduate course on methods and materials for reading in the elementary school participated in a study of the effects of black dialect syntactical features on teacher judgements of reader ability. Each person listened to four tape recordings of the same 255-word passage. The recordings varied by race of reader, number of…

This document presents a description and evaluation of the Corrective Reading Services Program designed to serve approximately 13,769 eligible, educationally deprived pupils in 229 nonpublic schools of New York City during the 1974-1975 school year. The purpose of the program was to improve the reading level of the students through a corrective…

The current movement toward observing both the process of reading in other languages and the areas of language interference is an important element in the education task. In a study which examined and described the observable process of oral reading by six bilingual children whose first and dominant language was Yiddish, the Reading Miscue…

This research report examines the effect of sexual orientation in reading material upon reading test scores of boys and girls. (MK)

An exploratory application of audio-visual media to the occupation proficiency testing of enlisted soldiers is described. A five-response console which had been developed as a laboratory model was used. A DataQuest machine was adapted for delivery of a multiple choice test of job knowledge. In being tested, the soldier sat in front of the console…

Recent research in text structure and comprehension has several important implications for readability theory and practice. First, text-level factors such as coherence and organization must be considered along with word-level and sentence-level factors when evaluating the readability of a specific set of materials or when attempting to construct…

The utility and precision of scaling 200 relatively short reading passages were analyzed using a Rasch-based measurement technique as compared to readability estimates using the Spache or Dale-Chall formulas. In addition, a regression model was specified for predicting the grade level of a text a student could literally comprehend based on…

Three studies, involving 140 black third grade students reading below grade level, sought to determine whether dialect interference negatively affected reading comprehension. The first investigation found that a story could be repatterned to significantly reduce the number of miscues and minimize dialect interference between the student's oral…

GOALS OF THE PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION PROJECT, IN ITS THIRD YEAR IN 1964-65, ARE TO STUDY USE OF COMMERCIALLY-PREPARED PROGRAMS IN 32 SELECTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, TO PREPARE READING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS FOR SLOW ELEMENTARY READERS, AND TO CHRONICLE AND REPORT DEVELOPMENTS IN PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION. INTEREST IN TEACHING MACHINES AND PROGRAMED…

GOALS OF THE PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION PROJECT, IN ITS FOURTH YEAR IN 1965-66, ARE TO STUDY USE OF COMMERCIALLY-PREPARED PROGRAMS IN 33 SELECTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, TO PREPARE READING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS FOR SLOW ELEMENTARY READERS, AND TO CHRONICLE AND REPORT DEVELOPMENTS IN PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION. 126 TEACHERS AND 4,158 STUDENTS PARTICIPATED.…