Children's Reading Achievement as a Function of Varying Specificity of Purpose Setting Directions / Margaret B. Jones.

This study was designed to confirm the hypothesis that objectives which focused on items of information best facilitated reading retention among a population of elementary school children while controlling for the children's reading level rather than for the "density" of the reading passage. Two 550...

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Main Author: Jones, Margaret B.
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1974.
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Physical Description:13 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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