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McBreen, Miriam; Savage, Robert – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2022
This research assessed the impact of combining small-group cognitive reading intervention with a motivational program targeting students' goals, emotions, and self-efficacy beliefs on the reading performance and motivation of third-grade students at risk for reading difficulties (n = 25, M[subscript age] = 8.99, SD = 0.38). Using a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Student Motivation, Reading Motivation, Intervention
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Malloy, Jacquelynn A.; Marinak, Barbara A.; Gambrell, Linda B.; Mazzoni, Susan A. – Reading Teacher, 2014
For most classroom teachers, recognizing when students are engaged in literacy activities--and perhaps more glaringly, when they are not--is a process that is key to evaluating the potential success of the instruction being offered. Students who are engaged have their eyes on what they are doing, are ardently attending to the teacher's read aloud…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Instruction, Literacy Education, Student Motivation
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Gunter, Glenda A. – Computers in the Schools, 2012
In this article the author presents a meta-analysis of the findings from several studies conducted over multiple years with various types of learners that investigated exemplar/signature pedagogical practices incorporating video to motivate otherwise reluctant and struggling learners. Noting that newer technologies are making today's learners less…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Web Sites, Pretests Posttests, Quasiexperimental Design
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Quirk, Matthew; Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Webb, Mi-young – Journal of Literacy Research, 2009
This short-term longitudinal study investigated the relationships between students' reading self-concept, goals for reading, and reading fluency skill over the course of the second grade year. Second-grade children (N = 185) were administered the Test of Word Reading Efficiency, the second-grade Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills,…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Achievement, Educational Practices, Path Analysis
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Gambrell, Linda B.; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1996
Describes the Motivation to Read Profile (MRP), which assesses children's self-concepts as readers and the value they see in reading. Discusses its development and offers suggestions for its use with elementary students. Includes the MRP. (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Measures (Individuals), Reading Attitudes, Reading Motivation