Reading Improvement in Government and Business.

This article presents the study to determine the status of developmental reading improvement programs in military, government and business agencies. The results show that reading proficient improved in all but a few individual cases. The are overall mean increase in reading speed was approximately f...

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Published in:Education Vol. 82; no. 7; pp. 428 - 432
Main Author: Acker, Ralph S.
Format: Article
Published: Project Innovation Austin LLC Mar1962
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        Developmental reading
        School improvement programs
        Curriculum enrichment
        Educational change
        School administration
        Educational planning
        Academic achievement
        Comprehension
        Vocabulary
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          Developmental reading
          School improvement programs
          Curriculum enrichment
          Educational change
          School administration
          Educational planning
          Academic achievement
          Comprehension
          Vocabulary
      ab: This article presents the study to determine the status of developmental reading improvement programs in military, government and business agencies. The results show that reading proficient improved in all but a few individual cases. The are overall mean increase in reading speed was approximately forty-one percent, comprehension eight percent and vocabulary eleven per cent. There was general agreement among the supervisors of the reading program graduates that the work performance of these graduates improved as a result of their training. Supervisors also found out that the reading habits of graduates improved.
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