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Teaching Communication Skills Through Video Tape Productions, Jane R. Fleetwood
Teaching Communication Skills Through Video Tape Productions, Jane R. Fleetwood
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Motivating students to learn and practice effective communication skills has always been a dilemma for teachers of all grade levels. Video cameras and camcorders are now being used as teaching tools in many schools to not only motivate students to use and practice a variety of skills, but to stimulate their creativity, as well. Loretto Elementary School in
Jacksonville, Florida, is developing a program which incorporates student-written video productions into its existing curriculum. Loretta's innovative program is a direct result of a 10-rninute informational video tape production done by graduate student Jane Fleetwood and Continental Cablevision, a local cable television …
The Cloze Procedure: A Measure Of Reading Comprehension Ability, Theresa Lorene Donaldson
The Cloze Procedure: A Measure Of Reading Comprehension Ability, Theresa Lorene Donaldson
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The present study was conducted in order to determine if a relationship exists between those comprehension processes measured by the Paragraph Comprehension subtest of the McGraw-Hill Basic Skills System Reading Test and the cloze test developed for this project. Two classes of undergraduate education majors enrolled in “Foundations of Performance-Based Education” were administered both the cloze test and the multiple choice comprehension test.
A correlation coefficient was computed between the summary scores on the McGraw-Hill and the summary scores on the cloze test. The results yielded a correlation of .021. These results did not support the research hypothesis.