Improvement in Reading Achievement Through Perceptual-Motor Training

Abstract

Forty-two underachieving grade 1 children matched for age, sex, IQ, and Lee-Clark reading grade level were randomly assigned to one of three groups. One group received perceptual-motor training, the second received exercises from the regular physical education curriculum, and the third group served as a control. After seven weeks of training (two periods a week) reading achievement was reassessed. The experimental group was found to have made statistically significant gains, while the other two groups had made no such gains.     

The Measurement of Child Behavior in Terms of Its Social Stimulus Value

This study proposed to determine the policy of a single university department concerning admissions to the doctoral program. A Q-sort technique was used with several attributes of each graduate listed on an index card. The twelve members of the graduate faculty rated each graduate by placing a profile into one of seven piles. The number in each pile was fixed. Each rater’s policy was captured by using multiple linear regression. With the use of the Judgment Analysis technique (JAN), the raters were placed into appropriate clusters, and it was found that at least two separate judgment systems were present.