WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT NO. 20, 7 MAY - 14 MAY 1957

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05787A000300020174-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 2009
• Sequence Number: 174
• Publication Date: May 14, 1957
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Chief, Intelligence School
FROM : Chief, Reading Improvement
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report No. 20
7 May, 14 May 1957
DATA 14 May 1957
1. L _]students completed the first experimental class on
Wednesday, 8 May, with student response 100% in favor of the
2-hour a day class sessions. Final results are listed below:
Technique
--Feteat* ` Posttest*
rate ~ score--.,_ rte
score
Informational reading
300
4
.395
80
Scan for main ideas
416 `
74
666
.83*
d
St
44
62
u
y
(*rate is in words per minute, and score is
percentage of questions answered correctly)
Although these results are essentially the same as the results
of the 7 week, I hour a day class, the Reading Branch prefers
to make no conclusions until after the experimental class has
been retested. 'The retesting should.be completed by the end
of August. The second rimental class begins tomorrow and
has an enrollment ofl
is on leave 13 and 14 May.
2.
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