Health, Education and Welfare

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Office of Educationcompiled largely from studies reported in educational periodicals. The unpublished research was made available through a survey cq,nducted under tile auspices of the U.S. Office of Education, with the cooperation of colleges, universities, and public school systems, which furnished information on studies undertaken in the various educational institutions.Ackhowledgment is made to the members of the Subcommittee on Reading of the National Council on Research in English for their assistance in fOrmulating plans for the project and preparing and testing the questionnaire, Report of Re-search in Reading (1955-60).In addition to acquainting teachers, supervisors, and administrators with recent research in reading at the primary level, this bulletin may serve as a source of information for the college teacher or student who wishes to locate areas in reading which have been investigated or which need further investi- eg. IntroductionTHE UNPUBLISHED research included in this compilation has been screened to the extent that a faculty member at each college or university selected the studies included int+Olis bibliography. -14'. A reviewer at eaciiinstitution which participated in the project com-*tea forms furnishing the following information: purpose of the study; hypotheses tested; design of the study including population, durakion, and scope; research design ; met hod.of collecting data; controls; testa used; and method of treatment of data.No attempt has been /nade to analyze the abstracts critically or to site the specific limitations of each study. As it was impossible to_ gain access to the original studies, the only information available was the-information furnished by the reviewer at each institution. Insane cases the information reported by the reviewer was insufficient, such as the statistical techniques employed or the methods used to collect data.The studies have been c.ategO T rized according to topics. The first section of the bulletin consists of a summary of the studies in each category. ,The abstracts of the studies, arranged by category, appear in the second section. A study conducted in Orange County, Fla., by Clark (5) revealed a positive correlation between readiness scores and academic achievement. Allen (1) measured abilities found in readiness workbooks and related findings to reading achievement at the end of a half-year period of instruction in grade one. The significance of intelligence in relation to certain factors of reading readiness was the topic of two studies, one reported by Natale (16) and. one by 11fcMillan (14).Natale found significant relationships among intelligence and vocabulary opposites, memory span, and word discrimination. McMillan'8 study revealed relationships between intelligence and reading readiness and between intelligence and use of context. Results of intelligence tests can be used as one criterion in determining readiness. for reading, according to Stephey (23) 'boys should have a longer readiness period than girls.*Numbers in parentheses ar...