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50 Years of ERIC
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Neuman, Susan B.; Smagorinsky, Peter; Enciso, Patricia E.; Baldwin, R. Scott; Hartman, Douglas K. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2000
Presents five educators' ideas of what the influences of media on literacy will be in the next millennium. Considers the global influence of the 21st century library. Discusses the technique of composition across the curriculum. Considers past and present patterns of literacy in relation to conceptions, materials, and methods of literacy. (SC)
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Influences, Libraries
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Baldwin, R. Scott; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1985
Reports on a study that examined the effects of prior knowledge and topic interest on the reading comprehension of seventh- and eighth-grade students. The results suggested that both prior knowledge and topic interest were autonomous factors in reading comprehension. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Junior High School Students, Knowledge Level, Prior Learning
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Schatz, Elinore Kress; Baldwin, R. Scott – Reading Research Quarterly, 1986
Reports three studies indicating that context has little effect on high school students' ability to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words. (HTH)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Grade 10, Grade 11
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Baldwin, R. Scott; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1982
Presents results of a study of fifth-grade students' ability to interpret novel metaphors and similes when provided with a subschemata of semantic attributes. (AEA)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Figurative Language, Grade 5
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Baldwin, R. Scott; Vaughn, Sharon – Reading Research Quarterly, 1993
Responds to an article in the same issue of the journal presenting a meta-analysis of reading research. Expresses concern that the authors' conclusions will promote a slavish adherence to a methodology and a rigidity of thought that reading researchers can ill afford. (RS)
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Reading Research, Research Methodology, Research Needs