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Causey, Oscar S., Ed.; Bliesmer, Emery P., Ed. – 1960
Focusing on research and evaluation in college reading, the papers in this volume were drawn from the ninth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1959. Among the topics discussed in the 19 papers are the following: a proposed model of reading comprehension, factors affecting reading test performance, student attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Evaluation Methods
Leedy, Paul D., Ed. – 1964
Papers dealing with topics relating to college and adult reading instruction and discussions of these papers by reading authorities who offer differing viewpoints are presented. Subjects treated include humanistic aspects of reading; materials and methods in use; current and future programs; programs operated by business and industry; illiteracy;…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Business Education, Colleges
Download full textArtley, A. Sterl – 1968
Information from more than 180 research studies reported during the last decade is presented on (1) secondary school reading achievement, (2) status factors related to growth in reading, (3) progress of reading instruction, (4) instructional procedures, (5) student reading interests, and (6) secondary reading personnel preparation. The research…
Descriptors: Individualized Reading, Instructional Materials, Programed Instruction, Reading Ability
Hillerich, Robert L. – 1978
This annotated reference list provides information about books, articles, and dissertations that discuss critical reading. The 74 entries deal with a variety of topics, including the following: techniques for teaching critical reading; the relationship of attitude and reading comprehension to critical reading responses; the development of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Creative Thinking
Bertalan, John J. – 1976
A determination of the reading grade placement levels (GPLs) and final course grades of community college students in relationship to the GPLs of their assigned social science textbooks was the focus of a study at Citrus Community College (Florida). Dale-Chall readability placement levels were calculated for eight textbooks used in 19 classes of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Grade Prediction, Multiple Regression Analysis
Rigney, Joseph W.; Lutz, Kathy A. – 1975
Forty undergraduate college students participated in a computer-assisted instructional study designed to utilize right cerebral hemisphere functions in the learning and memory process. Two versions of a lesson on how a simple battery works were designed to present conceptual and topographic information either verbally or pictorially on a Plato IV…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Chemistry, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics
Turner, W. E.; Bare, Janet – 1972
The Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I program described in this paper served 1550 educationally deprived pupils in 82 Kansas elementary and junior high schools during the 1971-1972 academic year. The primary goals of the reading program were to improve and upgrade word recognition and reading skills and to improve pupils' attitudes. The…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools, Primary Education
Winkeljohann, Rosemary, Comp. – 1976
This selective bibliography is one of nine documents compiled to provide titles and descriptions of useful and informative reading documents which were indexed into the ERIC system from 1966 to 1974. The 115 entries in this section of the bibliography concern reading difficulties and are arranged alphabetically by author in one of the following…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Black Dialects, Disadvantaged Youth, Dyslexia
Curran, Faye, Comp. – 1976
This document is divided into three sections: descriptions of program models, samples of practical materials, and reports of research. Included are papers dealing with such topics as individualized reading diagnosis and instruction on the community college level, junior college reading programs for training teacher aides, an instructional team…
Descriptors: College Programs, Community Colleges, Educational Innovation, Experimental Programs
McC. Gallagher, Jo Anne – 1975
The purpose of this study was to determine whether lower-class students would exhibit greater retention of reading vocabulary with a language experience approach to reading than with a basal text approach. Sixty low socioeconomic level students from the seven first grades of one elementary school in a small South Carolina town were randomly…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1
Smith, Marshall S., Ed. – 1975
The problem of this conference panel was to develop means (strategies, materials, techniques) by which children of cultural and linguistic minority groups can learn to read and communicate effectively in English as well as in the language or dialect of their respective group. The six areas of approach, as outlined in this panel report, are:…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Communication Skills, Community Influence, Conference Reports
Williams, Joanna P. – 1974
In the first experiment, the development of the ability to copy alphabet letters by black males aged 3-9 (middle and low S.E.S.) was studied, using a newly-developed scoring system. In the second experiment, kindergarteners learned to associate letter names with six lower-case printed letters by the anticipation method. The addition of an…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children, Kinesthetic Methods
Swalm, James E.; Hunt, Barbara C. – 1974
Teachers and administrators are constantly called upon to examine and evaluate the procedures and practices they use to teach reading. The purpose of this study was to develop base-line data on the practices and procedures currently being used in New Jersey schools. The information was collected through questionnaires constructed from a list of…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Developmental Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Leeper, Sarah L. – 1967
An examination is made of proposals for early reading in terms of the best time for beginning instruction and the effects upon children. In any discussion regarding early reading one must distinguish between prereading activities and formal reading instruction and must determine whether formal instruction is intended for all children or for those…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading, Grade 1
Leibert, Robert E., Ed. – 1971
A collection of papers delivered during the Fifteenth Annual International Reading Association Convention is presented which represents a variety of views on diagnosis and/or on the manner in which diagnostic information is interpreted. The papers have been arranged into three sections. The first deals with the importance of diagnosis, presents…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Diagnostic Teaching, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary School Students
