The speed factor in reading performance

It is maintained that the most adequate way to measure the relationship between speed and comprehension in reading is to measure speed and comprehension on the same or strictly comparable material, and then correlate these two scores. When speed and comprehension scores were obtained on 110 college sophomores with the first 5 parts of the Iowa silent reading test the number of items attempted in standard time was found to be as good a measure of rate of work as the total time taken for the test, and the rate of work scores yielded high correlations with comprehension scores, which were the time limit scores. It is concluded that there is an intimate relation between rate of reading and comprehension scores for the material employed.