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USING COLLEGE READING

ASSIGNMENTS TO IMPROVE
READING/THINKING SKILLS
Rose Yesu Jacques
STOUGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS

In recent years institutions of higher education have found

the reading ability of many freshman students to be inadequate for
college studies. Whether these students are traditional or nOLtraditional, once they are accepted, colleges have a responsibility to
provide these students with some type of remedial or developnental
instructioI'_ (Ahrendt, 1975; Moore, 1976).
Many colleges have recognized this responsibility and have
established programs specifically for the needs of their students
(Power, 1976). Eighty perceLt of the respondents to Huslin' s 1975
survey investigating college and uni versi ty developmental reading
programs indicated that their colleges offered some type of developmental reading program.
The work of Artley (951) and McKinLon (976) also derner_strates
the need for developnent and continued refinement of critical rea.ding
and thinking ski lIs at thE college level. The survey showed that
both teachers and students felt tb2.t ber.efit would be derived from
instruction in critical reading (Follman, 1970). The work of Shtrogen
(976) also supports thE need for deve10pnent of critical reading
skills at the college level.
Purpose of the study
The puq::ose of this study was to detErmine whether instruction
in certain critical reading skills ",'ocid irnr-,rove the overall reading
ability of college fre:::rlJTler.. The ski lIs of recognizing assumptions,
reasoning deductively, interpreting, dravd.ng inferences. and Evaluating arguments were the critical reading skills chosen for inclusion
in this study. Besides the primary purpose cited, the proced1..rres
used in this study provided opporturities to investigate related
questions. Therefore, the data were also analyzed to discover:
1. The effect of training in cert8in critical reading
skills and certain notetaking techniques upon social
sciercce grades.
2. The effect of training in certain critical reading
skills and in certain notetaking techriques upon grov.th
in critical tbinking abilitie:::.

Study materials and design

The study consisted of three experimental groups and one control
grow:. Gro1..lp I was given study guide::: whicr. required that students
take notes on their social science readings. These guides were developed using the outlining techriq1..'es recorrrnended in Seven Reading