Training college freshmen to read

Abstract

Total scores on standardized diagnostic reading tests do not reveal the significant reading difficulties of college freshmen. A special course was conducted with students in the lowest quartile of the Mount Holyoke Reading Test on how to study, including exercises on finding central meanings, increasing reading rate, building up and analyzing words, and comparing meanings of proverbs, combined with senior student advisor conferences. At the end of a six-week period retest on an alternate form of the Reading Test shows an improvement of from 4 to 150%. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)