Title: Facilitating Transfer in College Reading Programs.
Abstract: College reading programs historically have emphasized isolated skills and then measured success by examining student gain scores on standardized tests. Recently, however, critics have pointed out that those generalized reading skills have little or no application to learning regular college subjects (Walker, 1983). They have argued that strategies for coping with real text should be taught and that a program's effectiveness should be measured in terms of the students' abilities to trans-
Publication Year: 1987
Publication Date: 1987-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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