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Eva Expósito-Casas; Ana González-Benito; Esther López-Martín – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2024
The purpose of this work is to identify contextual variables that help to explain the occupational aspirations of Spanish 15-year-old students. This is done by performing a secondary analysis of the PISA2018 test. Data have been analysed using decision trees introducing the students' expected occupational status as a dependent variable (DV), and…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Self Concept
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Rodríguez-Ortiz, Isabel R.; Díaz-Acosta, Ana; Simpson, Ian C. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2023
Few studies exist on the reading habits of the deaf population, and most of those that do were published more than 20 years ago. Hence, changes in reading habits due to the availability to the deaf population of online reading material and portable electronic devices have likely occurred. Additionally, in the hearing population, confinement causes…
Descriptors: Adults, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Reading Habits
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Melero, Ángeles; Villalón, Ruth; Izquierdo-Magaldi, Belén – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2020
Introduction: In literate societies, reading is a key cultural instrument that must be mastered. This process involves cognitive, affective-motivational and contextual aspects. However, we find little research internationally on the relationship between reading comprehension, attitudes toward reading, reading self-confidence and family involvement…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Family Involvement, Reading Comprehension
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Artola, Teresa; Sastre, Santiago; Jiménez-Blanco, Amelia; Alvarado, Jesús Mª – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2021
Introduction: Attitude, motivation and interests in reading are three fundamental aspects of reading as entertainment. ACTIM-LEC is an instrument designed to measure these components, and also includes other relevant factors in establishing a reading habit, such as attitude towards study and reading preferences. The objective of the present…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Reading Motivation, Reading Interests, Reading Habits
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Lordán, Eva; Solé, Isabel; Beltran, Francesc S. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
The aim of this research was to develop a new questionnaire for exploring the reading beliefs of undergraduate students, because the only currently available instrument has conceptual and methodological limitations. The paper describes the process of developing the instrument and presents a range of psychometric data obtained from a sample of 558…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Reading Attitudes
International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2016
PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) is the fourth assessment in the current trend series, following PIRLS 2001, 2006, and 2011. There were 61 participants in PIRLS 2016, including 50 countries and 11 benchmarking entities (e.g., regions of countries as well as additional grades or language groups from the participating…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Grade 4