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Troyer, Margaret; Kim, James S.; Hale, Elizabeth; Wantchekon, Kristia A.; Armstrong, Catherine – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Children's motivation to read is a strong predictor of their reading comprehension. However, some recent research has suggested that the relationship between reading motivation and reading comprehension may be mediated through the amount that students read. This study attempts a conceptual replication of several existing models that explore the…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Kim, James S.; Capotosto, Lauren; Hartry, Ardice; Fitzgerald, Robert – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2011
The authors describe an independent evaluation of the READ 180 Enterprise intervention designed by Scholastic, Inc. Despite widespread use of the program with upper elementary through high school students, there is limited empirical evidence to support its effectiveness. In this randomized controlled trial involving 312 students enrolled in an…
Descriptors: Evidence, Control Groups, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension
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Kim, James S.; White, Thomas G. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2008
The effects of a voluntary summer reading intervention with teacher and parent scaffolding were investigated in an experimental study. A total of 24 teachers and 400 children in Grades 3, 4, and 5 were randomly assigned to one of four experimental conditions: control, books only, books with oral reading scaffolding, and books with oral reading and…
Descriptors: Silent Reading, Reading Fluency, Grade 3, Reading Instruction