DOCUMENT RESUME . ED 116 148 CS 002 312 . 0 AUTHOR) McNin6h, George H., Ed.; Miller, Wallace. D., Ed. TITLE ,.. Reading: Convention and Inquiry; 24th'Yearbook of the . National Reading Conference. INSTITUTION ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading ana-Communi ation Skills, Urbana, Ill.; National Reading co ference, Inc., 'Boone, N.C. SP,ONS AGENCY National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Wash ngton, l D.C. ' PUB DATE 75 NOTE, 310p.; Softie pages may reproduce poorly due to small type; Papers presented, at the 1974 Annua Meeting of' the National Reading Conference . AVAILABLE FROMNational Reading Conference, Godfrey pall Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29631( 10.00) EDRS PRICE MF-$O.76 Plus Postage. BC Not Available from E RS. DESCRIPTORS *College Programs; Eye Movemellts;-*LiteratUre *:* - Reviews; Reading Improvement;Reading Instraction; Reading Itterests; Reading Materials; Reading Programs; *Reading Research; Reading Tests; *Teacher Education IDENTIFIERS National Reading Conference ABSTRACT This yearbook includes a summary of the research in reading that has been conducted in recent years, and alsocontains many ideas that have practical implicationsfor the teacher in the classroom. The essays are divided into six major sections: research review, college and-adult programsf.teacher education,programs and practices, test materials, and research and theory. Included are essays on such topics as improving collegereading-and s .y programs by locating and critigAing research, subjective assessme of auto-instructional learning tasks in secondary and college reading materials, eye-movement photography as an instructional tool, prevention of reading problems in higher education, internalreading flexibility pAtterns among university undergraduates, reading programs in Illinoii high schools, improving aschool's reading achievement', children's ability to segment sentences intoindividual words, the use of prediction equations and computersimulation for identifying preferred sensory modality for training inreading, developmental changes in memory attributes of good and poorreaders, and interest as a variable in word acquisition. (TS) ************A********************************************************* Documents acquired by ERIC include many informalunpublished * materials not available from other sources. ERIC makes everyeffort * * to obtain the best copy available. Nevertheless,items of marginal *. * reproducibility are often encountered and thisaffects the quality * * of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makesavailable * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS).EDRSis not * responsible for the quAlity of theoriginal, document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be madefrom the original. *********************************************************************** TIS READING: CONVENTION U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND INQUIRY EDUCATION:I. WELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION THIS 00-UMENT HAS SEEN REPRO DUCEO r-'CTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR OR9ANIZAION ORII,IN ATIND IT POINTS 0E VIEW OR OPINIONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRE SENT OFFICIAL NATIONAL INSTITUTEOF EDLiCATIoN POT, tiON OR POLICY pe" _ TWENTY-FOURTH YEARBOOK-OF THE CO NATIONAL READING CONFERENCE 1-4 Edited by GEORGE H. McNINCH LI1J WALLACE D. MILLER University of Southern Mississippi BESTAVAILL4,13LE COPY With special technical assistance by LINDA REED Coordinator of Publications, ERIC/RCS 1I 1 1 Kenyon Road Urbana, Illinois61801 Published by iNg The National Reading Conference, Inc. Clemson, South Carolina 29631 `)( 1975 9 National Institute of Education ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills 0 The National Reading Conference, Inc. Clemson, South Carolina 29631 The material in this publication was prepared pursuant to acontract with the National Institute of Education, U.S. Departmentof Health, 'Education and Welfare. Contractors undertaking suchprojects under governmentsponsorshipare 'encouragedtoexpressfreelytheir judgment in p(ofessional and technical matters.Prior to publication, the manuscript was submitted to the NationalReading Conference for critical review and determination of profeslional competence.This publicationhas met such standards. Points of view or, opinions, however, do not necessarily represent the official view or opinionsof either the National Reading Conference or theNational Institute of Education. Although this book is not copyrighted, muchmaterial contained herein is under copyright and may not bereproduced without the specific perinission of the copyright holder. Distributed by THE NATIONAL READING CONFERENCE Godfrey Hall Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina 29631 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OFAMERICA BY University of Southern Mississippi Press Hattiesburg, Mississippi $1 ilk 0 0 OFFICERS AND BOARD OE DIRECTORS OF THE NATIONAL READINGCONFERENCE, INC. EDWARD FRY, President Rutgers University J. JAAP TUINMAN, Vice-President University of Indiana GORDON GRAY, Tr'easurer Clemson University HAZEL HORN CARROLL, Secretary Dallas, Texas EARL RANKIN, Past-President University of Kentucky MARTHA MAXWELL, Member University of California, Berkeley DAVID WARK, Member University of Minnesota WAYNE OTTO, Member Wisconsin University RON CARVER, Member University of Missouri RICHARD ROBINSON. Member & Convention Manager University of Milsouri GEORGE MCNINCH and WALLACE MILLER, Ex-Officio, Yearbook Editors University of Southern Mississippi 4 EDITORIAL ADVISORI COMMITTEE 24TH NRC YEARBOOK FREDERICK B. DAVIS University of Pennsylvania HENSLEY BILL BLANTON - BONNIE University of Southern Mississippi Indiana University at Natchez EMRY P. BLIESMER JOSEPH I LIK A Pennsylvania State University exas A & M University ROBERT D. CHESTER A. J. KINGSTON University of Wisconsin University of Georgia A. GARR CRANNEY KARL KOENKE University of Florida University of Illinois DOROTHY MCGINNIS JOHN DOWNING Western Michigan University University of Victoria FRED W. OHNMACHT TOM ESTES State Univeristy of New York University of Virginia at Albany MARTHA EVANS MARK G. RICHMOND University of Maryland University of Southern Mississippi fl FRANK GREEN RICHARD ROBINSON McGill University .University of Missouri DAVID WARK ANN MARIE HAASE University of Minnesota University of Massadhusetts Acknowle ments The advice and assistance of the membersof the Editorial Advisory Committee is very much appreciated.?Each paper was read by at least three members of,the Editorial AdvisoryCommittee. t) 4 FOREWORD The National Reading Conference (NRC), held every yearduring the winter, has as its purpose to provide an arena for betterunderstanding the continuum of the reading process. Scholars, researchers,and others interested in(,,the development of reading gather to shareideas and research. Throughout the years NRC has providedyearbooks which have given the profession summaries of research that can be usedby the researcher, the teacher, and the student of reading. This.year theERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills has collaborated with NRC in producing the yearbook for NRC's ,membersand the prof es sio n . ERIC, the Educational Reso.irces Information Center, was originally conceivein the U.S. Office o' Education in the mid-I 960s as a system for provi g ready access to educational literature. ERICi$ now a part of the Na 'onal Institute of Education (NIE) and, through its sixteen specializedclearinghouses,performsthreemajorfunctions:(1) acq isitio cluding evaluation', indexing, and storage for computer ret ievatof recent documentsoh education; (2)dissemination, of these 'do uments throughtheERIC DocumentReproductionService ( RS),andinformationabout;herdthroughtheperiodicals R sources in Education! and Cdtrent Index to Journals inEducation; a (3) information analysis, activities designed to make the findingsof research and the practices of teachers or school districtsavailable and intelligible to teachers and applicable to their classrooms: It is with this last goal in mind that ERIC/RCS is pleased towork with the National Reading Conference in disseminatingtheir 1975 Yearbook. The purpose of the Yearbook is to provide for thosewho attended the conference a selected record of the thoughts andideas that they encountered there and, for those who did not attend, abetter understanding of the many complicated facets of the reading process. The Yearbook includes a summary of the research inreading that has been conducte.in recent years, but also contains manystimulating ideas that hive practical implications for the teacher in theclassroom. Sister Rosemary Winkeljohann (Former) Associate Director, ERIC/RCS ERRATA leading: Conventicn and inaufry McNinch & Miller ( Correct Table of Contents Relationsh'i'p Between riesearch Control and Rep prted Rezult3 of Colle;e Heading Imp:'ovement Programs 80 E h?l E. McCreath change rto Marilyn F zi rbanks TABLE OF CONTENTS RESEARCH REVIEW 1974 Review of Research on College-Adult Readin4 1 William E. Blanton and Cyrus F. Smith, Jr. COLLEGE AND ADULT PROGRAMS A National Survey of Learning and Study Skills Program . ..6.7 Guy D. Smith, Gwyn Enright, and Margaret Devirian Improving College Readingand Study Programs By Locating and Critiqueing Research 74 Donald D.Basile, Rose Mary Winkeljohann, and Patricia Stara Relationship Between Research Control and Reported Result College Reading Improvement Programs 80 Ethel E. McCreath Subjective Assessment of Auto-Instructional Learning Tasks in Seco'hdary and College Reading Materials 94 Marilyn G.Eanet, Mark W. F. Condon, and Anthony V. Manz()