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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...