Word: challe
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...interviews with hundreds of teachers and administrators, Chall found that few referred to research in defending their use of the meaning method. "Their language," she says, "was more often characteristic of religion and politics, than of science and learning...
...tremendous financial interests of publishers have buttressed emotional commitments to the meaning method, says Chall. She quotes one editor who estimates the cost of one beginning reader series at "probably within the range of 10 to 20 million dollars...
From 1962 to 1965, Chall used a $14,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation to reanalyze data from 67 major studies on reading, to visit over 300 classrooms, and to interview proponents of various theories on the teaching of reading. She concluded that children learn to read better when taught by a "decoding method.'- on which emphasizes learning the alphabet and breaking the codes of written words in their first few years of instruction...
Most of the research since then, Chall contends, has been "shockingly inconclusive," but on the basis of her re-evaluation she concludes that "the re-search from 1912 to 1965 indicates that a code-emphasis method ...produces better results...
...recommending improvements in teaching techniques, Chall calls for modification in the beginning texts now used, a re-examination of the content of reading courses, raising the educational level of teachers, better diagnostic tests, and most importantly better research into reading. No researcher, she says, can claim "the final word...