The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the development in the critical reading ability of students in grades four, eight, and twelve in the public schools of Puerto Rico. / Specifically, the research was conducted to determine: (1) If there is growth in the critical reading ability of Puerto Rican students from the elementary level through the high school level. (2) If there is a significant difference in the critical reading ability of Puerto Rican male and female students. (3) If there is a significant difference in the critical reading ability of male and female fourth, eighth, and twelfth grade Puerto Rican students. (4) What types of reasoning fallacies Puerto Rican male and female students most often fail to detect. / The .05 alpha level of significance was used as the criterion for the 24 hypotheses, which were tested using a two-way analysis of variance. The hypotheses stated that there were no significant differences in the critical reading ability of Puerto Rican students due to grade, sex, and the interaction between grade and sex. / The Test of Reasoning Fallacies was administered to 259 subjects enrolled at three different schools, located in the city of Carolina, Puerto Rico. / The results revealed some growth from the elementary school through the junior high school level, and no growth from the junior high school through the high school level. No significant differences were found between males and females in the ability to detect written fallacies; but a significant difference in the ability to detect the Appeal-to-Conformity Fallacy was found. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-07, Section: A, page: 3087. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74580 |
| Contributors | LAUREANO, ANIBAL., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 126 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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