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Ciampa, Katia – Canadian Journal of Education, 2012
This study stemmed from a concern of the perceived decline in students' reading motivation after the early years of schooling. This research investigated the effectiveness of online eBooks on eight grade 1 students' reading motivation. Eight students were given ten 25-minute sessions with the software programs over 15 weeks. Qualitative data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergent Literacy, Early Reading, Reading Motivation
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Morgan, Paul L.; Fuchs, Douglas; Compton, Donald L.; Cordray, David S.; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2008
The authors used a pretest-posttest control group design with random assignment to evaluate whether early reading failure decreases children's motivation to practice reading. First, they investigated whether 60 first-grade children would report substantially different levels of interest in reading as a function of their relative success or failure…
Descriptors: Correlation, Pretests Posttests, Student Motivation, Grade 1