Subjects listened to a set of three 5-minute passages. A free-recall test and a multiple-choice test were administered at the conclusion of the experiment. It was found that the number of ideas recalled was favorably influenced by note taking, rehearsal and testing. (CK)

Compared intellectually gifted children and controls on their ability to name and classify words and pictures of high or low frequency. High IQ children had shorter response latencies than other children and also showed no word frequency effects in the word naming tasks. (Author)

Examines and compares the theoretical and empirical bases for the use of the relative frequency of descriptor use in the design and maintenance of thesauri for information retrieval in the social and natural sciences. Data are presented in two tables and a reference list is included. (JL)

The relationship between categorical organization and recall for children in grades 2, 4, and 6 and for adults was investigated using the sorting-recall procedure. (MP)

Cites study which shows that children use three clearly defined spelling strategies regardless of the type of instruction and that children approach high frequency and low frequency words differently. Subjects were 46 first-graders, 57 second-graders, 51 third-graders, and 43 fourth-graders enrolled in various Michigan schools. (BF/JH)

A word frequency study of two graded readers and an unsimplified text indicated that graded readers facilitated better foreign-language reading and vocabulary learning than did unsimplified texts. It was found that students needed to read several same-level texts to master vocabulary, and that vocabulary mastery was not necessary for successful…

Argues that readability formulas accurately predict how easily a passage will be understood by considering sentence length and word difficulty. Claims that the misuse of readability formulas as writing guides is responsible for much of the criticism. Challenges the critics to come up with something better. (RS)

Investigated was the presence and role of cue words in word problems found in three mathematics textbooks series. The methodology and results of the study are presented. Lists of cue words for grades 3-6 are provided. (CW)

Examines issues relating to similarity neighborhoods of words in children's lexicons. Young children's receptive vocabularies were analyzed for three-phoneme, four-phoneme and five-phoneme words. The pattern of the original results from Charles-Luce & Luce (1990) was replicated. (18 references) (Author/CK)

A. Caramazza, A. Costa, M. Miozzo, and Y. Bi (2001) reported a series of experiments showing that naming latencies for homophones are determined by specific-word frequency (e.g., frequency of nun) and not homophone frequency (frequency of nun + none). J. D. Jescheniak, A. S. Meyer, and W. J. M. Levelt (2003) have challenged these studies on a…

This study investigated the effects of orthographic depth on reading acquisition in alphabetic, syllabic, and logographic scripts. Children between 6 and 15 years old read aloud in transparent syllabic Japanese hiragana, alphabets of increasing orthographic depth (Albanian, Greek, English), and orthographically opaque Japanese kanji ideograms,…

In this article, we describe the development and trial of a bilingual computerized test of vocabulary size, the number of words the learner knows, and strength, a combination of four aspects of knowledge of meaning that are assumed to constitute a hierarchy of difficulty: passive recognition easiest, active recognition, passive recall, and active…