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Situational Interest during Individual Reading and Peer Reading Activities Using PALS: Its Relationship to Students' Reading Skills and Reading Motivations
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Lee, Youngju; Cho, Young Hoan; Park, Taejung; Choi, Jaeho – Educational Studies, 2023
This study examines how students' situational interest changes across different segments of peer reading activities and identifies the relationship with personal traits like the students reading skills and motivation. The authors measured their levels of situational interest, reading skills, and reading motivation, based on their participation in…
Descriptors: Independent Reading, Peer Relationship, Reading Instruction, Cooperative Learning
Exploring the Relationship between Rural Young Adolescents' Expectancy-Values in Reading and Their Reading Performance
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Owen, Rebecca H. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study explored the relationship between rural young adolescents' expectancy-value beliefs in reading and their reading performance. Based upon a theoretical framework in expectancy-value theory, a theory of achievement motivation, this study examined the nature and strengths of the relationships between young adolescents' expectancy and value…
Descriptors: Rural Population, Early Adolescents, Expectation, Reading Achievement
Concurrent Validity of the Independent Reading Level Assessment Framework and a State Assessment
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Ralston, Nicole C.; Waggoner, Jacqueline M.; Tarasawa, Beth; Jackson, Amy – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2016
This study investigates the use of screening assessments within the increasingly popular Response to Intervention (RTI) framework, specifically seeking to collect concurrent validity evidence on one potential new screening tool, the Independent Reading Level Assessment (IRLA) framework. Furthermore, this study builds on existing literature by…
Descriptors: Validity, Independent Reading, Reading Tests, Measurement
Active Learning Strategies and Vocabulary Achievement
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Griffith, John R. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Using a quantitative method of data collection, this research explored the question: Do active learning strategies used in grades 5 and 6 affect student vocabulary achievement in a positive or negative direction? In their research, Wolfe (2001), Headley, et al., (1995), Freiberg, et al., (1992), and Brunner (2009) emphasize the importance of…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learning Strategies, Vocabulary, Academic Achievement
Exploring Dispositions toward Online Reading: Analyzing the Survey of Online Reading Attitudes and Behaviors
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Putman, S. Michael – Reading Psychology, 2014
The Internet is having a profound impact on the literacy practices of today's students. Acknowledging the complex processes associated with reading online, the Survey of Online Reading Attitudes and Behaviors (SORAB) was created to further our understandings in this area. A factor analysis revealed the instrument included five factors that…
Descriptors: Internet, Electronic Publishing, Reading Habits, Factor Analysis
Estimating Reading Growth Attributable to Accelerated Reader at One American School in the Caribbean
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Foster, David K.; Foster, Dean P. – Reading Psychology, 2014
This article provides a statistical analysis of the reading gains observed at one American school in the Caribbean that was using Accelerated Reader. It provides an estimate of the number of hours students needed to read to advance their reading performance an additional year. The authors estimate how much Accelerated Reader contributed to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Achievement Gains, Reading Instruction