An Analytical Study of the Common Elements in Silent and Oral Reading

Authors

Donald E. Swanson, State University of IowaFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

This paper will give in a preliminary way a brief summary of a new approach and a new technique for the diagnosis of reading difficulties at the college freshmen level. The oral reading of 70 poor silent readers has been recorded phonographically. Scores in the lowest quartile on the Iowa Silent Reading Test and Whipple's High School and College Reading Test were used as the criteria of inferior silent reading. The subjects thus selected were inferior in comprehension and in rate of silent reading and in vocabulary. Intelligence as approximated by the University Qualifying composite scores ranged between percentiles 1-60.

Publication Date

1934

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

41

Issue

1

First Page

259

Last Page

261

Copyright

©1934 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Swanson, Donald E. (1934) "An Analytical Study of the Common Elements in Silent and Oral Reading," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 41(1), 259-261.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol41/iss1/95