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Felix Bittmann – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Do children with better reading competence read more, or do avid readers increase their reading competence? This highly relevant question has been discussed for many years, yet conclusive results are rare. Previous studies suffer from small sample sizes or omitted variable bias, rendering their findings questionable. We provide new insight using…
Descriptors: Reading, Opportunities, Reading Instruction, Gender Differences
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Naceur, Abdelmajid; Schiefele, Ulrich – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2005
The present work examined the influence of topic interest on the strength of different components of text representation and long-term retention according to the model of text processing by van Dijk and Kintsch (1983). A Series of relevant personality characteristics were assessed to control for alternative explanations of interest effect, A total…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Student Interests, Student Motivation, Retention (Psychology)