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Klauda, Susan Lutz; Guthrie, John T. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
This longitudinal study examined the development of reading motivation, engagement, and achievement in early adolescence by comparing interrelations of these variables in struggling and advanced readers. Participants were 183 pairs of seventh grade students matched in gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and school attended. They completed…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Achievement, Learner Engagement, Early Adolescents
Guthrie, John T.; Kirsch, Irwin S. – 1983
Growing scientific literature provides a perspective of literacy that is at variance with traditional points of view, which see literacy as a unitary, dichotomous, psychological capability that is learned with the appropriate educational opportunity. However, an individual is not easily categorized as literate or illiterate. While the goal is to…
Descriptors: Functional Literacy, Literacy, Literacy Education, Reading Ability