The latest of the national surveys of educational progress has produced some provacative findings about the reading ability of young Americans. (Editor)

Lists 115 master's theses, 90 of which were written since March 1963. (SW)

Presents questionnaire results showing that 86 percent of capital cities held summer reading programs in 1967; that 63 percent of the programs had federal funds; that aides, clerical workers, nurses, librarians, and psychologists assisted teachers; that programs utilized a number of approaches; and that evaluation was done through…

Speculates about the presence of a negative Hawthorne effect on a control group in addition to a positive effect on the experimental group in an experiment involving 2 first-grade teachers and their classes, and draws implications for studies which seek to control for possible interference by positive and negative Hawthorne effects. Bibliography.…

Reveals trends which indicate (1) higher decoding skill achievement with emphasis on controlled regularity of grapheme-phoneme correspondence and language structure, and (2) higher word study skill achievement with no control of consistency of correspondences. Bibliography. (MD)

Analyzes phoneme-grapheme relationships of vowels and reports common phonemes in accented and unaccented, open and closed syllables. Bibliography and tables. (MD)

Reexamines the efficiency of i/t/a in a 3-year longitudinal study of 180 children and reports better general reading and spelling ability and earlier learning of vowel sounds at the end of grade 1 with i/t/a but also reports an equalizing of abilities at the ends of grades 2 and 3 under i/t/a and T.O. systems. Bibliography. (MD)

Reports the type and frequency of oral reading errors at independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels for 68 children in grades 4 through 6 and concludes that oral reading for diagnosis is both valuable and necessary. (MD)

Analyzes the social and cognitive rigidity of teachers in grades 3 through 6 compared to the reading achievement of 159 of their students, and reports a significant correlation between low teacher cognitive rigidity and high student reading achievement gains but no significant relationship between social rigidity or combined social and cognitive…

Describes sources from which the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse on Reading obtains materials and discusses the criteria by which these materials are selected for acquisition. (MD)