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Teachers, cognitive scientists, and educational psychologists have researched the relationship of reading speeds and cognitive skills and their efforts appear to be bringing results. Researchers from the University of Aberdeen reported in a notable academic journal that they have found evidence to support what researchers probably knew all along but never had the data to prove. Levels of a readers understanding is in direct proportion to the reading course speed.
Course reading speed has always been believed to help a student to shine at school, but it's not just an old wives tale. In a large study involving the interview of over 9000 parents, teachers and students, it was found that students with an above average class reading speed, absorbed more of the concepts being taught and were left with more time to revise their understanding.
Researchers however, are not satisfied with all the results of the study. The head of the research team emphasized the need to study further the connection between faster reading speeds and comprehension of the educational curriculums.
An area which could use further research in the nature of the relationship, is what researchers term, breakthrough reading speed. The theory is that there is a threshold for reading speed where cognition is much more than the overall average. Determining what that threshold is would be important if we wish to uncover the true nature of the relationship.
A person's reading speed is greatly influenced by how much the person was read to as a child and how many books were available for the child to read. The child's reading speed will be higher once he or she begins school. Reading speeds really don't change much as the person gets older.
According to this study, Children with unique educational needs can enhance their information retention levels with support from teachers and remedial classes. Increasing the child's reading speed to a point close to the threshold limit will work, so long as there is as much time spent on reading as there is on other remedial aspects.
Recently a study undertaken by researchers from the University of Aberdeen was published in an academic journal, which appears to prove that comprehension is proportionally linked to the Course Reading Speed. Scientists believe that humans have a "critical threshold" reading speed; beyond this threshold, cognition is greater than the nation's average. One area that scientists are considering for future search is exploring Breakthrough Reading Speed. In interviewing over 9,000 students, parents, and educators, researchers found that students, who read above the Class Reading Speed, would find more time to revise their learning habits, and retain more of what they had learned.
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