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Caballero, Jane Alexis – 1975
This study involved a comparison of first and second grade students' performance on the Piagetian Task Administration Instrument (PTAI), the Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT), and the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT) with actual reading achievement measured by placement on the Indiviudally Paced Instruction (IPI) Tracking Card in Reading, which was…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary School Students, Predictive Measurement, Primary Education
Graham, Dorothy Marguerite – 1972
The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of the Indian children in grades two and three of an integrated school in southern Saskatchewan with the performance of their non-Indian classmates on tests of listening comprehension, reading comprehension, auditory discrimination, and IQ. The Durrell Listening-Reading Series provided…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Canada Natives, Grade 2, Grade 3
Download full textFischer, Karen M. – 1975
A follow-up study of 42 school-age children related school-age reading, reading readiness, and listening and speaking skills with early psycholinguistic ability. The children were given measures of vocabulary, sentence imitation, comprehension and production, phoneme discrimination, IQ, and word inflection skill at age three. In addition, the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Skills, Predictive Measurement, Preschool Education
Barclay, D. J., Ed. – 1970
The three position papers included in this publication are concerned with the broad area of illiteracy, with each individual paper presenting a specific point of view. The first paper, "The Costs of Illiteracy," discusses several complex relationships between illiteracy and its economic consequences for the illiterate citizen and for the country.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Educational Policy, Illiteracy, Literacy Education
Lott, Deborah; Cronnell, Bruce – 1969
The ability to use sequential constraints in recognizing letters in three-letter words flashed on a screen at low contrast thresholds and the relationship of this ability to grade level and reading achievement were investigated. Eighty subjects were randomly selected, 20 each from grades 1 through 4. Ten adults were also tested for comparison with…
Descriptors: Adults, Consonants, Language Patterns, Language Skills
Hershberger, Wayne A.; Terry, Donald F. – 1963
As a follow-up to an original study reported by Hershberger (1963), the present study assessed the instructional effectiveness of typographical cueing in both conventional and programed texts as a function of reading ability, reading instructions, and cueing complexity. A total of 118 eighth graders were divided into eight groups. Each group read…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Programed Instruction, Programed Instructional Materials, Prompting
Gallo, Donald R. – 1974
Conducted from October 1970 through August 1971, this assessment of reading was concerned with four age levels--9, 13, 17, and 26-35. A total of 98,016 people responded to a wide variety of reading exercises which were administered and scored by trained professionals. The results were then examined according to various group characteristics: sex,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Children, Educational Assessment
Klumb, Roger William – 1973
Designed to investigate the effects of three motivational treatments given to selected teachers, this study measured the effects of the treatments in terms of pupil reading acheivement and staff teachers' perceptions of selected interpersonal variables. Two hypotheses were tested: pupils in the control group and pupils in the experimental groups…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement, Reading Development
Katz, Leonard; Wicklund, David – 1973
The purpose of this experiment was to replicate and extend previous work which showed substantial differences between good readers (GR) and poor readers (PR) in the time taken to encode single words. The technique used was based on the memory-scanning and visual-scanning procedure first used by Sternberg. The subjects for the study consisted of 30…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Grade 4, Grade 6
Jacobson, M. Victoria – 1974
The major purpose of this study was to provide insights into some of the reasoning strategies that may be used by students in obtaining meaning from the printed page. The study was designed to collect and analyze the verbal protocols of 11 seventh grade students involved in introspection as they responded to standardized measures of reading…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Grade 11, Linguistics
Cahn, Lorynne D. – 1974
Through the meaningful interpretation of sensory data and a background in language experiences, an individual can build more effective knowledge structures. With more effective knowledge structures, one can react more discriminatingly to the written and printed word. Sound knowledge structures involve not only the ability to organize and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Reading, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Schumacher, Gary M.; And Others – 1974
The purpose of this study was to investigate the interrelationship between passage organization and the presence or absence of advance organizers. Two sets of stimulus materials were used. One set consisted of six paragraphs, each of which described the important events in the administration of one obscure American president. The second set of…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, College Students, Prose, Reading
Hansen, Lee H.; Hesse, Karl D. – 1974
Students at four grade levels (4,7,10, and 12) were tested using a criterion-referenced measure of reading literacy based on the Bormuth literacy model. Cloze test passages were selected to represent a cross section of ten content domains of readers material (e.g., textbooks, consumer safety, occupational, etc.). A multimatrix sampling design was…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods
Goodson, Floyd Lee – 1973
The purpose of this study was to find factors related to the success in reading of low-income white children in high schools in five West Virginia counties. The study asked whether disadvantaged students who succeed in reading differ significantly from disadvantaged students who fail in reading: (1) in the amount of their participation in physical…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Doctoral Dissertations, High School Students, Reading
Bruning, Roger H.; Zimmer, John W. – 1974
In an investigation of the "shaping" function of postquestions in prose and of a new methodological approach, fifth-grade children read forty text cards, each consisting of four attributive statements. Each card was followed by an experimental question, which during training tested information related to specified concepts or positions, or…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Learning, Learning Processes, Questioning Techniques
