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To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence. Research Report #47
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National Endowment for the Arts, 2007
This report contains the best national data available to provide a reliable and comprehensive overview of American reading today. While it incorporates some statistics from the National Endowment for the Arts' 2004 report, "Reading at Risk," this new study contains vastly more data from numerous sources. Although most of this information is…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Late Adolescents, Reading Skills
Effects of Paragraph Structural Explicitness on Main Idea Comprehension of College Level Students with Varying Abilities.
Wood, Shaila Penelope – 1979
It was reasoned that readers who have difficulty processing intersentence relationships to discover main ideas of paragraphs would be among those identified as weak comprehenders by a standardized test measure. To test the hypotheses related to this premise, 48 community college students designated as good and poor comprehenders on main idea items…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Organization, Paragraphs