Correlations were found among the scores made by 169 university students on the A.C.E. Psychological Examination, a Cooperative Reading Comprehension Test and tests devised by the author for ...vocabulary, rate, comprehension and structural analysis, i.e., analysis of words into their structural elements such as prefix, stem, etc. as an aid toward obtaining meaning. Vocabulary and reading abilities are more closely related to each other than they are to structural analysis, but all three show positive association. Structural analysis correlates with general intelligence, but also correlates with reading and vocabulary when general intelligence is partialled out. Previous language study appears to have a low or negligible relationship to structural analysis, reading and vocabulary scores. 19 references.
This issue of the "Review of Educational Research" attempts to cover the larger issues and to organize around some of the problem lines of instructional materials in educational media and technology. ...In its four chapters, each with a different author, the research review encompasses five broad areas: the design and selection of media, utilization and management factors, learner variables, learning objective variables, and the effects of media and media systems on school organizations and operation. Each chapter is followed by a bibliography. (Author/SP)
