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Wade, Quentarius Dewayne – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Using a correlational research design, this dissertation sought to examine the variables--self-efficacy, motivation, reading attitude, and gender--which could serve as a predictors for reading achievement with a purposive sample of 81 African-American 5th grade males attending two elementary schools in North Texas. Using a bivariate correlation,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Males, African American Students, Correlation
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Graham, Steve; Berninger, Virginia; Abbott, Robert – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2012
This study examined whether attitude toward writing is a unique and separable construct from attitude toward reading for young beginning writers. Participants were 128 first-grade children (70 girls and 58 boys) and 113 third-grade students (57 girls and 56 boys). We individually administered to each child a 24-item attitude measure that contained…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 3, Primary Education