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A Comparison of High and Low Frequency Criteria on Reading Agility, Retention, Endurance and Direct Instruction Reading Mastery Checkout Performance of Elementary Students Academically At-Risk

Morgenstern, Barry D.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392387051

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2002, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, EDU Teaching and Learning.
This experiment compared the effects of a low frequency criterion (i.e., 40 to 80 correct words per minute) and a high frequency criterion (i.e., 180 to 220 correct words per minute) on reading agility, retention, endurance, and Direct Instruction Reading Mastery checkout performances. The participants were three 3rd grade elementary students who were identified by their reading teachers as failing the checkouts in Direct Instruction Reading Mastery. The experimenter conducted daily 10 to 20-min sessions of repeated readings and paired reading with each student. The experimenter measured the number of words read correctly and incorrectly per minute during each session. Also, the experimenter recorded whether or not students passed the Reading Mastery checkouts associated with the stories read during the experiment and Reading Mastery checkouts not associated with those stories. The experiment did not show a functional relation between frequency criteria and retention, endurance, agility, or the Direct Instruction Reading Mastery checkout performances. The data may have implications for future research on developing fluent reading. In particular, the instructional method used to achieve fluent performance may be a critical variable.
John O. Cooper (Advisor)
Nancy Neef (Committee Member)
Timothy E. Heron (Committee Member)
86 p.
Education

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  • Morgenstern, B. D. (2002). A Comparison of High and Low Frequency Criteria on Reading Agility, Retention, Endurance and Direct Instruction Reading Mastery Checkout Performance of Elementary Students Academically At-Risk [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392387051

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  • Morgenstern, Barry . A Comparison of High and Low Frequency Criteria on Reading Agility, Retention, Endurance and Direct Instruction Reading Mastery Checkout Performance of Elementary Students Academically At-Risk. 2002. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392387051.

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  • Morgenstern, Barry . "A Comparison of High and Low Frequency Criteria on Reading Agility, Retention, Endurance and Direct Instruction Reading Mastery Checkout Performance of Elementary Students Academically At-Risk." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392387051

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