Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 2 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 8 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 10 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 9 |
| Reports - Research | 9 |
| Dissertations/Theses -… | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| Test of Adult Basic Education | 4 |
| Dynamic Indicators of Basic… | 2 |
| Woodcock Johnson Tests of… | 2 |
| Woodcock Reading Mastery Test | 2 |
| Clinical Evaluation of… | 1 |
| Gates MacGinitie Reading Tests | 1 |
| Woodcock Johnson Tests of… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Download full text
Direct linkElizabeth L. Tighe; Gal Kaldes; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
Inferencing skills uniquely contribute to the reading comprehension skills of older grade-school and college students. Evidence also suggests that children's reading component skills, such as decoding and language comprehension, differentially contribute to various reading comprehension assessments. However, additional research is needed to…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Development, Morphology (Languages)
Denton, Carolyn A.; Tamm, Leanne; Schatschneider, Christopher; Epstein, Jeffery N. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2020
Many students with reading difficulties and disabilities (RD) also have Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This randomized clinical trial compared the effects of ADHD treatment alone (medication, parent training), intensive reading intervention alone, and their combination on the reading fluency and comprehension of students with…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Treatment, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Reading Difficulties, Intervention
Olszewski, Arnold; Cullen-Conway, Margaret – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
Dialogic reading, in which parents engage children in discussion of books, is associated with long-term literacy success. Social media is an emerging platform for promoting behavioral change, but it has yet to be tested as a platform for engaging parents in use of dialogic reading strategies with their young children. This exploratory study was…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Social Media, Preschool Children
Barnes, Adrienne E.; Kim, Young-Suk; Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Vorstius, Christian – Grantee Submission, 2017
The present study explored the reading skills of a sample of 48 adults enrolled in a basic education program in northern Florida, United States. Previous research has reported on reading component skills for students in adult education settings, but little is known about eye movement patterns or their relation to reading skills for this…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Reading Skills, Eye Movements, Decoding (Reading)
Barnes, Adrienne E.; Kim, Young-Suk; Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Vorstius, Christian – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
The present study explored the reading skills of a sample of 48 adults enrolled in a basic education program in northern Florida, United States. Previous research has reported on reading component skills for students in adult education settings, but little is known about eye movement patterns or their relation to reading skills for this…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Reading Skills, Eye Movements, Decoding (Reading)
Reda, Patricia Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2016
A southeastern elementary school evidenced many students with a consistent decrease in oral reading fluency (ORF) rates as the 2nd grade year progressed, leading to weakness in reading comprehension in the 3rd grade. Reading comprehension is critical for academic success, as students who merely decode words do not gain knowledge from the text.…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency
Sinambela, Seftirina Evina – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The prosodic features in reading aloud assignment has been associated with the students' decoding skill. The goal of the present study is to determine the reliability of prosody for assessing reading fluency of adult ESL students in Indonesia context. The participants were all Indonesian natives, undergraduate students, adult females and males who…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Reading Fluency, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Josephs, Nikki L.; Jolivette, Kristine – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2016
This study examined the effects of peer-mediated oral reading fluency instruction and narrative texts on the reading fluency and comprehension skills of adolescent struggling readers in an alternative high school setting over a period of 10 weeks. The results of this study indicate that peer-mediated repeated reading appears to be the most…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Skills, Reading
Mellard, Daryl F.; Fall, Emily E.; Woods, Kari L. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2013
Statistical analyses of data from an academically diverse sample of 276 adult basic and secondary education learners extends understanding of the relation of and interactions between oral reading fluency and reading competence indices. Significant interactions between total word rate and word error rate that differed in relation to two measures of…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Functional Reading, Reading Fluency, Job Application
Chang, Anna C. -S. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2012
This study investigates the effect of timed reading (TR) and repeated oral reading (RR) on 35 adult students of English as a foreign language. Students in the TR (n =18) and RR (n =17) groups read 52 and 26 passages respectively over a 13-week period. Reading rates and comprehension levels were measured at three occasions: pre-intervention,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Oral Reading, Adult Students
