Correspondence, 1922-1957
Scope and Content Note: Includes general correspondence, reports of meetings, the constitution adopted in 1923, and special project reports. (See list of these reports in Appendix I.)

Miscellaneous Files, 1923-1957

Directories, 1923-1957 (incomplete)

Remedial Reading Programs, 1928-1929, 1936-1937, 1952-1953

Reading Study Test Form 1, 1928-1929
Scope and Content Note: Includes a table showing group median and group IQR, individual diagnostic record sheets, summary by grade for all schools, the objectives of reading instruction, and a sample copy of public school achievement test in which Form 1 is used.

Reading Study Test Form 2, 1928-1929
Scope and Content Note: Includes individual diagnostic record sheets and report of the nation-wide survey, 1928-1929.

Miscellaneous Reading Study Papers, 1928-1933
Scope and Content Note: Includes a “Summary by grades for all schools,” 1928-1929; “Errors tabulated from Five Studies,” Minneapolis Public Schools Instructional Research Curriculum #16 (2-page mimeograph copy); “Bibliography - Supervision in English,” Minneapolis Public Schools Instructional Research Curriculum #15 (2-page mimeograph copy); “The Teaching of Language,” bibliography compiled by Training School Critics (2-page mimeograph copy); “Teaching of English” (2-page mimeograph copy); “Suggestions for Improvement of Teaching of Reading” (3-page mimeograph copy); “Remedial Procedures for Specific Reading Difficulties” (2-page mimeograph copy); “Remedial Work in Grammar - Fountain City Public Schools” (4-page typewritten copy); “Testing Program for 1931-1932, Tomah Public Schools, Tomah, Wis.” (2-page typewritten copy); Samples of Reading Form 1 and 2, grades 3 to 8; and “A Sampling Analysis of Errors in the Mechanics of English made by College Freshmen as Revealed by Freshmen English Placement Test” (1-page typewritten copy).

Reading Study, 1936-1937
Scope and Content Note: Includes “Summary Results of Questionnaire on Reading Interests and Habits” (2-page mimeograph copy); “Summary Results - Iowa Silent Reading Test - Reading Improvement Program, 1936-1937; “Outline for Experimental Training in Reading, Spring Semester 1937,” by Rachel Salisbury, Platteville State Teachers College (9-page ditto copy); “Remedial Reading Program” from the James A. Mulligan School, Chicago, Illinois, as conducted by Hazel B. Lipke, Remedial Teacher and William E. Poore, Principal (14-page multilith copy); Class record sheets - Iowa Silent Reading Test; and sample copies of Iowa Silent Reading Tests - Advanced Tests: Form A and B (Revised).

Reading Study, 1952-1953
Scope and Content Note: Includes “The Problem of Remedial Reading” (2-page ditto copy); “Final Report - Schoolmasters Remedial Reading Project”; “List of Materials and References” for Teacher Help in Remedial Teaching of Reading (1-page ditto copy); “Report of Test results, December 1952 and April 1953”; “Report of Results of Pre-Test” (1-page ditto copy); and “Building Vocabularies” (2-page ditto).

Study of High School Failures, 1922-1925
Physical Description: 2 folders 

Miscellaneous Studies, 1923
Scope and Content Note: Includes Questionnaire: Steps taken to reduce failures, and Study of teachers' uniformity in meaning and method of marking.