In this paper, we illustrate the successful implementation of pre-class reading assignments through a social learning platform that allows students to discuss the reading online with their classmates. We show how the platform can be used to understand how students are reading before class. We find that, with this platform, students spend an above average amount of time reading (compared to that...

A s a director of a university diagnostic reading clinic, I see children of all ages who, for one reason or another, are making poor progress in learning to read. Our job in the reading clinic is to determine the nature and source of the child’s reading problem and suggest (and implement) instructional interventions for helping the child improve. Often the children we see in our clinic demonstr...

Despite the growing number of studies highlighting the complex process of acquiring second language (L2) word recognition skills, comparatively little research has examined the relationship between word recognition and passage-level reading ability in L2 learners; further, the existing results are inconclusive. This study aims to help fill the gap. Three word recognition subcomponents (decoding...

A survey of the literature was made to determine the skills involved in reading comprehension that are deemed most important by authorities. Multiple-choice test items were constructed to measure each of nine skills thus identified as basic. The inrcrcorrclarions of the ninc skill scores were factored. each skill being weighted in the initial matrix roughly in proportion to its importance in re...

The goal of reading is understanding. In order to understand print, a child must be able to decode the words on the page and to extract meaning. A large body of research focuses on how children learn to decode text and how best to foster children’s decoding skills. In contrast, we know much less about the process of reading comprehension in children. In this booklet we first consider what is re...

preciated only with the assistance of pencil and paper. On pedagogic grounds, this may be a blessing in disguise, even if it slows the reading pace. In conclusion, it should be stressed that this book is not an attempt to present an uncritical, comprehensive overview of the state of affairs in a special area of biochemistry. It is highly selective and clearly centered on the author's own contri...

COVERAGE: Lecture Notes 6 and 7; Problem Sets 3 and 4; Rowan-Robinson, Chapters 4 and 5; Weinberg, Chapters 4 and 5. One of the problems on the quiz will be taken verbatim (or at least almost verbatim) from either the homework assignments, or from the starred problems from this set of Review Problems. The starred problems are the ones that I recommend that you review most carefully: Problems 1,...

the creation of adam/human being is one of the most important and ubiquitous subjects in different religious and non-religious works. among the questions which can repeatedly be found in such works are: how was adam/human being created? why was he created? why was he placed on the earth? what is his status among the other creatures? old rituals, religions, literary and mythical works have tried...