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Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. Among the topics dealt with in the 22 titles are the following: (1) the influence on reading ability and behavior of instructional objectives, the answering of self-generated questions, writing in the expressive mode, instruction in…
Descriptors: Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, College Freshmen, Content Area Reading
Creamer, Mary; Lorentz, Jeffrey L. – 1979
The effects of student socioeconomic status (SES) and four teacher behaviors--teacher structure, teacher affect, cognitive level of questions, and group size--on student reading achievement were analyzed. Subjects were 36 fifth and sixth grade classroom teachers and their 820 students. Data were collected with the Reading Comprehension Subtest…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Grade 5
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 26 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) perceptions of elementary classroom teachers regarding the causes of reading retardation among black pupils; (2) the effects of visual training in learning…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Black Students, Compensatory Education, Deafness
Nicholson, Tom – 1979
The nearly 40 research studies carried out in New Zealand during the last decade have resulted in some very important ideas. In the area of children and texts, research focused on how children learn from texts, and the resulting data suggest that children can and do teach themselves to read, learning from their mistakes. The complexity of the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Classroom Environment, Cultural Influences, Educational Assessment
Bartlett, Andrea, Ed.; Pesqueira, Virginia, Ed. – 1980
The ten articles in this volume focus on the challenges of reading in the 1980s. Specific topics discussed in the articles include (1) the freely selected books of fourth and sixth grade students, (2) a student author project that served to integrate the language arts, (3) communication apprehension and its implications for communication…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Communication Apprehension, Communication Skills, Content Area Reading
Grabe, Mark – 1980
A total of 168 fourth and sixth grade students participated in a study to examine two aspects of children's ability to apply structure while reading. The first part of the study investigated the amount of detail that must be provided in order for students to apply successfully a desired perspective (schema). Students were identified as either good…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Jacquette, Barbara, Ed. – 1979
The ten articles in this yearbook were drawn from Arizona State University's Annual Reading Conference. The first two articles present different perspectives on current research in the teaching of reading comprehension, the third offers a systematic plan for teaching comprehension to remedial readers, and a fourth looks at reading as a tool for…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Education, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 25 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the effectiveness of a reading inservice program on secondary school teachers' knowledge, attitudes, and teaching behavior; the student teaching practicum in…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education
Thurston, Eric L., Ed.; Hafner, Lawrence E., Ed. – 1964
Focusing on new concepts in college reading, the papers in this volume were drawn from the thirteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1963. The 20 papers are grouped into three sections, the first of which contains descriptions and evaluations of reading programs, a study of methods of training teachers for the…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Higher Education
Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1967
Focusing on expanding fields in junior college and adult reading programs, the 35 articles in this volume were drawn from the sixteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1966. Among the topics discussed in the articles are the following: an interdisciplinary approach to the identification and remediation of severe reading…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Educational Technology
Lomax, Richard G.; Cooley, William W. – 1979
Ten studies investigating the relationship between instructional time and achievement on elementary school reading and mathematics tests were reviewed. The studies involved general classroom research, instructional time research, and attention research. The review indicated that the relationship between academic achievement and instructional time…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Attention, Classroom Observation Techniques
Shuman, R. Baird – 1978
The purpose of this book is to deal with pressing problems encountered by secondary teachers in teaching reading, through synthesizing pertinent research and suggesting classroom applications. Its 16 chapters deal with the following topics: the teen-aged nonreader; complicating factors in the teaching of reading; a school-wide attack on reading…
Descriptors: Dialects, Educational Problems, English Instruction, Grammar
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with the following topics: correlates of reading achievement in Mexican-American children; Latino communication patterns; the semantic distance and semantic judgment of English monolingual and Spanish/English…
Descriptors: American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Biculturalism, Bilingualism
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 201 entries in this section of the bibliography concern adult education and are arranged alphabetically by author in one of the following eight…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs
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 231 entries in this section of the bibliography concern tests and evaluation and are arranged alphabetically by author in one of the following…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
