Readability systems have once more become prominent in policy and practice because of recommendations in the Common Core State Standards. This study revisited two features of current text analysis (readability) systems: their generalizability to all grade levels and to all content areas. A database that encompassed texts across the grade bands and…

Investigates the effects of structural cueing (color or no color) and decision level (rote or semantic) on students' verbatim retention of technical prose and concludes that the results support the distinctiveness of encoding hypothesis for learning via the microcomputer. (DF)

Concludes that there may be differential effectiveness of method of reading instruction according to sex, with females finding letter training simpler than word training and males finding the reverse. (FL)

Concludes that poor comprehenders may lack the awareness and the ability to use strategies that involve higher order, more complex thinking skills. Offers suggestions for teaching students to become aware of and engage in thinking skills. (FL)

Indicates that (1) structurerd study methods may be more effective for aiding students' retention of content area materials, (2) students are more concerned with detail or factual information than "higher level" forms of information, and (3) instructors of college developmental students need to instruct their students in how to generate…

Describes a computer-based methodology that obtains simple timed responses to sets of words and word-like nonsense items, then presents pilot data depicting estimated vocabulary knowledge and relating it to word frequency and decision response time. (FL)

Describes a project in which underprepared college freshmen in a basic skills English class heard materials read aloud while they followed along in the text. Concludes that the students made gains in writing skills but not in reading. (FL)

Concludes that entering college freshmen do not use the top-level structure strategy in reading and recalling text. (FL)

Concludes that there are distinct differences between college reading clinic and classroom reading instruction as it relates to the teaching of comprehension. (FL)

Reports on a study that focused on the retrieval strategies and effort allocation at the time of retrieval and adult subjects' corresponding satisfaction with task performance in the presence or absence of a specified criterion. (HOD)

Provides evidence of some predictive validity of the Nelson-Denny Reading Test (NDRT) for college students. Argues that because the NDRT is more convenient and economical to administer, it can serve as a feasible alternative to the SAT when a quick verbal measure is needed in the college setting. (FL)

Contends that second-language reading comprehension should be investigated using adult bilingual readers reading authentic materials in their first and second languages and should focus on the process rather than the product. Examines reading strategies of eight Chinese graduate students at a Canadian university. Suggests that students used the…

Assesses students' detection of lexical problems, falsehoods, and inconsistent textual information. Relates students' academic ranking to their evaluation performance for lexical and external consistency standards--not for internal consistency standards. Finds that alerting students to the necessity of using three standards to detect errors…

Examines whether the spatial configuration of two adjunct pictures influences processing of accompanying text as has already been found in other types of graphic displays. Reveals, through analysis of variance of performance, no effect for configuration. Notes significant differences in achievement for questions derived from paraphrased parts of…

Investigates effectiveness of two variations of elaborative interrogation for group settings in an experiment where college students learned factual sentence information--students used whatever strategies worked best for the sentence-learning task. Indicates that written and oral variations of elaborative interrogation were equally effective; both…