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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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A Postal Survey of OU Students' Reading Skills.
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Macdonald-Ross, Michael; Scott, Bernard – Open Learning, 1997
Analysis of reading tests (cloze and vocabulary) completed by first-year undergraduates at the Open University (Great Britain) demonstrated that many students in open-entry undergraduate programs have difficulty reading academic texts and that this difficulty has a negative impact on their success. (Contains 18 figures and six tables.) (PEN)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cloze Procedure, Foreign Countries, Higher Education