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Mahapatra, Shamita – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Reading difficulties are experienced by children either because they fail to decode the words and thus are unable to comprehend the text or simply fail to comprehend the text even if they are able to decode the words and read them out. Failure in word decoding results from a failure in phonological coding of written information, whereas, reading…
Descriptors: Remedial Reading, Reading Difficulties, Children, Decoding (Reading)
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Keim-Abbott, Sylvia; Abbott, Robert D. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1977
The interaction of mental ability and of two different instructional methods was investigated for a second grade linear metric curriculum unit. Mental ability was positively correlated with achievement under the guided discovery method, but essentially uncorrelated for the self paced mastery learning method. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Discovery Learning, Elementary School Students
Lahnston, Anton T. – 1973
Third grade pupils from a suburban school district were subjects of a study which examined the effects of two social studies teaching strategies, demonstration deductive and directed discovery inductive, and two intelligence levels as they affected mastery, immediate retention, immediate transfer, delayed retention, and delayed transfer. Three…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Concept Formation, Deduction, Discovery Learning