Despite the controversy about the term "disadvantaged", the term is used in this dissertation in order to coincide with Federal usage in conjunction with Chapter I guidelines. The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine the similarities and differences between the reading readiness test scores of disadvantaged and nondisadvantaged kindergarten students after the disadvantaged students received supplementary instruction in a Chapter I reading program. A second purpose was to determine if there were significant differences between the reading achievement of kindergarten students who attended classes in the morning and those students who attended classes in the afternoon. A third purpose was to determine if major demographic differences existed between the two groups. / The subjects were 53 disadvantaged and 65 nondisadvantaged students. The disadvantaged students were enrolled in a regular kindergarten class supplemented by a Chapter I reading program. The nondisadvantaged students were enrolled in a regular kindergarten class. The instruments used included the California Achievement Test and the Personal Data Sheet. / Twenty-three hypotheses were tested using the .05 alpha level as the criterion for the rejection of all hypotheses. The t test and the chi square test were used in the data analysis. / The major findings were: (1) after seven months of instruction, there was no significant difference between the mean reading scores of the two groups, (2) there was no significant difference between the mean reading scores of the morning disadvantaged and the afternoon disadvantaged, and (3) there was no significant difference in the mean reading scores of the morning nondisadvantaged and the afternoon disadvantaged students. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-12, Section: A, page: 3665. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75694 |
| Contributors | JORDAN, MEDARINE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 112 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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