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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 3, 1963
The Arts of Reading Are Taught Free To Students In Three Outside Classes
This is the second of a three part series. Rv Carol Lathron
While the Student Tutoring Service is directed to the needs of a student in a particular course, the Reading and Study Skills Service directs its help to the general study needs of a student.
Three types of services are being offered this semester.
This free service is offered by KU to any student who wishes to improve his reading ability or his general study methods.
THE FIRST TYPE CONSISTS of classes in reading and study methods. Groups of approximately 25 students meet for 18, 50-minute sessions to work on such topics as preparing for examinations, reading for comprehension, taking notes, improving examination marks, developing vocabulary and preparing term projects.
The second type consists of classes in rapid reading. Selected students who appear to have the potentiality to improve their reading speed without significant loss in comprehension are allowed to enroll for work with reading accelerators and tachisto-scopes.
These machines increase reading speed by projecting images on a screen for a brief measured period of time. Thus, the time for seeing the image can be controlled, forcing the person to develop speed in reading and retention.
The rapid reading classes meet for 24 sessions of 50 minutes each.
THE THIRD TYPE CONSISTS of a class which is designed to develop skill in spelling through reading. The
course work is based on a development of visual discrimination skill with the aid of machines. It consists of a maximum of ten sessions.
There are three instructors who work in the Reading and Study Skills Service. All three have had experience as teachers and training in methods of instruction in reading.
Robert W. Ridgway, assistant dean and professor of education, is in charge of the program. Charles Tegeler, teaching assistant of education, is the director and head instructor.
A student will be interviewed by a counselor and, on the basis of his needs, will be offered an opportunity to enroll in a program designed to improve his reading speed and comprehension or his general study methods.
THE INSTRUCTIONAL programs are planned so that they require not more than two or three 50-minute meetings per week. Sections are offered at various times during the day so that a student may choose a convenient time.
Instructors of these services advise the student who is enrolled in a course not to expect an easy, magic road to improvement. The student's development in reading speed and
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HOWEVER, ANOTHER student felt that the obtainable results were too slow in coming. She became discouraged and failed to complete the course.
Many other students expressed the same feelings.
comprehension and his facility in using the best study methods will depend on his own efforts in adopting the suggestions made to him.
One student who enrolled in the reading and study methods course said, "It helped me so much. I learned to pick out the important ideas of a paragraph instead of spending so much time with the whole thing. Now, when I go to study, I know what I'm looking for. I realize what points should be stressed because of their importance, and what parts I can forget."
Results from these three programs, though, show that if a student applies himself, he can improve his grades by one or two letters.
Director Tegeler feels that those
students who successfully complete the courses can usually make better grades than those students who have the superior mental ability.
Plans for moving the laboratories to larger facilities on the fourth floor of Bailey Hall are now underway. Additional instructors will be added if enrollments continue to increase.
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STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES invites you to another
another
T.V. PARTY
Thursday, April 4
7:30 P.M.
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Refreshments will be served and
the History Department will speak at 9:00 P.M. immediately following the program.
DR. ALDON BELL