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The readability of selected fourth, fifth and sixth grade social studies textbooks as determined by the Fry Readability Graph and group informal reading inventories

Creator:: Pruitt, Janet Louise McCracken, 1930-
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine the readability of three series of selected fourth, fifth and sixth grade social studies textbooks, a total of nine textbooks. Two measurements were utilized: a readability formula (Fry Readability Graph; Knapp, 1971), and group informal reading inventories. The Fry Graph was applied...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: investigation. Jim Harper, Poultry Science, Unofficial Graduate School Representative, who by virtue of the

Identification of reading and study skills related to academic success in each of ten schools at Oregon State University

Creator:: Haselton, Shirley Schantz
Abstract:: Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study was to identify essential reading and study skills for academic success in each of the schools at Oregon State University. Further, this study related faculty perception of specific skills and scores of subjects who were tested in these skills. The study...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: significantly differenly on tests of specific study and reading skills? 3. Within a school is faculty

The context in which student teaching occurs and its effect on student teacher performance

Creator:: Gallagher, Patricia Reed
Abstract:: The central problem of this study was to construct and validate an instrument to measure the complexity of the contexts in which student teaching occurs and to use the instrument in the investigation of factors related to context complexity and its effect on student teacher performance. The instrument to measure...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: difficulty of a setting. 4. The ratings of the School Supervisor on the CRSST showed a significant

A comparison of the effect of instructor-designed reading materials and the effect of programmed reading materials on selected reading skills and academic achievement of intercollegiate freshman student athletes

Creator:: Finn, Beatrice
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: privacy Dean of Gradua School Date Thesis is presented April 26, 1982 Typed by Jackie Poppleton for

A comparison of selected basic skills and personality characteristics in Adult Basic Education/General Educational Development (ABE/GED) and Developmental Education students

Creator:: Bennani, Nancy Gabbert
Abstract:: The purpose of the study was to determine whether Adult Basic Education/General Educational Development students and Developmental Education students are significantly different in selected basic skills and in selected personality characteristics. The population of the study (N=100) consisted of equal numbers of students enrolled in ABE/GED and DE classes at...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Professor, Dr. Kenneth Ahrendt of the Communi- cations Education Department, School of Education, Oregon

A study of the relationship of academic achievement in accounting courses to the readability of required textbooks and the reading ability of two-year accounting students

Creator:: Peterson, Erik Alfrid
Abstract:: Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine the degree to which the readability of accounting textbooks and two-year accounting students' reading ability were related to academic achievement. Procedure This research used two designs. Design one consisted of two samples from the population of two-year accounting students. One sample...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: S.A.T. scores in recent years is thought to be a result of poor reading abilities of high school

Effect of slot openness on word recall : three fundamental theorems

Creator:: Li, Xiaolong
Abstract:: A Factorial Design was employed to determine the effects of slot openness on recall for familiar items in discrete sentences as stimulus contexts. A slot was defined as a locale in a verbal context, in which the target item is embedded. Low-openness slots are locales into which only given items...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Privacy Chair of Department of'Educational Foundations Redacted for Privacy Dean of School of Education

Determining readability by computer analysis using the Fourier transform to calculate the spatial frequencies of words

Creator:: Piepmeier, Karen Swanson
Abstract:: The black and white pattern formed when an individual word is printed on a page was analyzed by the Fourier transform. The Fourier transform produces a sequence of sinusodial functions, usually called spatial frequencies, whose amplitudes depend upon the particular pattern analyzed. These amplitudes were examined to determine if the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: 1, 1 Redacted for privacy Dean of School of Education Redacted for privacy Dean of Graduate Sc

A comparison of the effect of computer-assisted-instruction and same-age peer-tutoring on math achievement of fourth grade students

Creator:: Pflug, Elizabeth A.
Abstract:: A pretest-posttest design was used to compare the effectiveness of computer-assisted-instruction (CAI) drill and practice with the effectiveness of same-age peer-tutor drill and practice on promoting mastery of multiplication facts. The subjects were students from three, fourth grade classes in the Reedville School District of Aloha, Oregon. Two fourth grade...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: privacy Dean of school of Education Redacted for privacy Dean of Graduat C chool Date thesis is

Measurement of and correlation between attitudes toward physical education and health-related physical fitness among male students at two Saudi-Arabian universities

Creator:: Abu-Saleh, Kadhem Mohammad
Abstract:: Two hundred twenty male students randomly selected during Spring semester 1988 from each of two Saudi Arabian universities, King Faisal and King Fand, were administered a three-part attitude measurement instrument and a fourpart Health-Related Physical Fitness Test. The attitude measurement instrument, derived from the McDonald Attitude Inventory and the Wear...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of the general 17 secondary school, students major in either science or the arts. In 1985, a new

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The readability of selected fourth, fifth and sixth grade social studies textbooks as determined by the Fry Readability Graph and group informal reading inventories

Identification of reading and study skills related to academic success in each of ten schools at Oregon State University

The context in which student teaching occurs and its effect on student teacher performance

A comparison of the effect of instructor-designed reading materials and the effect of programmed reading materials on selected reading skills and academic achievement of intercollegiate freshman student athletes

A comparison of selected basic skills and personality characteristics in Adult Basic Education/General Educational Development (ABE/GED) and Developmental Education students

A study of the relationship of academic achievement in accounting courses to the readability of required textbooks and the reading ability of two-year accounting students

Effect of slot openness on word recall : three fundamental theorems

Determining readability by computer analysis using the Fourier transform to calculate the spatial frequencies of words

A comparison of the effect of computer-assisted-instruction and same-age peer-tutoring on math achievement of fourth grade students

Measurement of and correlation between attitudes toward physical education and health-related physical fitness among male students at two Saudi-Arabian universities

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