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Direct linkBabbitt Bray, Gayle; Barron, Sheila – Educational Assessment, 2004
Previous research has established that interest in a text is related to better comprehension and recall, but the impact of interest on comprehension in testing situations has not been widely investigated. This study used Hierarchical Linear Models (HLM) to examine the relationship between students' interest in reading passages and their…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Ability, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Tests
