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R. Brandon Conaway; Ara J. Schmitt; Elizabeth McCallum; Laura M. Crothers; James B. Schreiber – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
Reading disorders, including reading comprehension disorders, are among the most common referrals for evaluation in schools. If that evaluation involves individually administered tests of reading, the examiner is faced with selecting at least one reading comprehension subtest that is inherently associated with specific task demands, such as a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Cloze Procedure
Fiorella Cabrejos – ProQuest LLC, 2024
At Community Leadership High School, a pseudonym, graduation rates have consistently ranged between 95% and 100%. However, 35% to 40% of graduates, who come from low income families of color, lack the college and career readiness skills required to succeed after high school. The aim of this improvement science study was to increase the percentage…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, High School Freshmen, Reading Instruction
Jessica Cervano – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students struggling with reading in secondary school are between "learning to read" and "reading to learn." Struggling readers require metacognitive and cognitive reading skills to tackle the complexities of reading. Combining the research of worked-examples and think-aloud shaped the instructional intervention in this study.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Secondary School Students, Reading Difficulties
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Christine Schmalenbach; Winnie-Karen Giera; Daniela Niesta Kayser; Simone Plöger – Intercultural Education, 2025
The present contribution illuminates the initial developments in the adoption of Complex Instruction in Germany, where the implementation of the approach has just begun. It gives insights into a teacher education project, a theatre project, and a planned project at secondary schools.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Difficulty Level, Teaching Methods, Educational Principles
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Baumert, Jürgen; Fleckenstein, Johanna; Leucht, Michael; Köller, Olaf; Möller, Jens – Language Learning, 2020
Throughout Europe, there is a growing trend for students to start learning foreign languages at elementary school. Although policymakers expect early-start programs to boost second language skills, empirical findings are mixed; recent studies have raised many questions. In this large-scale study, we aimed to close some of these gaps. We examined…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Receptive Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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O'Grady, Stefan – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Purpose: The current study applies an innovative approach to the assessment of second language listening comprehension skills. This is an important focus in need of innovation because scores generated through language assessment tasks should reflect variation in the target skill and the literature broadly suggests that conventional methods of…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Correlation, English (Second Language)
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Ponce, Héctor R.; Mayer, Richard E.; Méndez, Ester E. – Educational Psychology Review, 2022
The present study examines the existing published research about the effectiveness of learner-generated highlighting and instructor-provided highlighting on learning from text. A meta-analysis was conducted of scientifically rigorous experiments comparing the learning outcomes (i.e., performance on memory and/or comprehension tests) of students…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Meta Analysis, Learning Strategies, Reading Comprehension
Steinle, Paul K.; Stevens, Elizabeth; Vaughn, Sharon – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
This systematic review synthesizes fluency intervention research for struggling readers in Grades 6 through 12 from January 2006 to October 2019. The search yielded 17 studies examining reading fluency and comprehension outcomes. Most studies examined repeated reading (RR) interventions to improve reading fluency for struggling readers at these…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Secondary School Students
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Zelaya, Kimberly J. D. – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2022
Read-aloud is a reading activity that is occurs most often in the early years classroom. Research suggests that read-aloud continues to be of value in the upper grades. Read-aloud provides opportunity for middle grade students to engage and connect to a range of literature. It increases motivation and improves accessibility for the range of…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Middle School Students, Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension
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Rahman, Taslima; Alexander, Patricia A.; Chae, Soo Eun – Reading Psychology, 2022
This paper describes the benefits of a psychometric analytic approach when studying students' ability to comprehend texts. A reading comprehension measure consisting of four text passages with 32 questions was developed, and analyses using a mean-based approach and linear logistic test (LLTM) method were performed. According to ANOVA, eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests
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Guo, Lina; Jafri, Mairaj; Williams, P. John; Wang, Chuang – Educational Media International, 2022
Sense-making is the process by which people give meaning to their collective experiences. Sense is viewed as knowledge, and the environment in which the sense is made is interconnected with communication effectiveness. Considering the critical role of sense-making in the learning process, scholars have emphasised the significance of providing…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Secondary School Students
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Luo, Dehong; Gong, Jing; Li, Yifei – Educational Studies, 2022
Readability formulae have been used to predict text difficulty, but their construction has been challenged. Previous readability formula designers typically adopted correct responses to reading comprehension questions (RCQs) as dependent variables, but they did not assess the effect of linguistic predictors concerning RCQs in the formula. Thus,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Johansen, Mikkel Willum; Goddiksen, Mads Paludan; Centa, Mateja; Clavien, Christine; Gefenas, Eugenijus; Globokar, Roman; Hogan, Linda; Merit, Marcus Tang; Nielsen, Soren Saxmose; Olsson, I. Anna S.; Poskute, Margarita; Quinn, Una; Santos, Júlio Borlido; Santos, Rita; Schöpfer, Céline; Strahovnik, Vojko; Wall, P. J.; Sandoe, Peter; Lund, Thomas Boker – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2022
Plagiarism and other transgressions of the norms of academic integrity appear to be a persistent problem among upper secondary students. Numerous surveys have revealed high levels of infringement of what appear to be clearly stated rules. Less attention has been given to students' understanding of academic integrity, and to the potential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Integrity, Cheating
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Glasswell, Kathryn; Madda, Christina L.; Glasswell, Nicky – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2022
Challenges associated with reading in the disciplines are well documented. In this article, we report on a small-scale study that was part of a larger school-university design-based research collaboration focused on improving literacy learning in Australian high schools. We discuss Paired Wide Reading (PWR), an instructional innovation designed to…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Content Area Reading, Foreign Countries, High School Students
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Butler, Whitney Sommers; Hord, Casey; Watts-Taffe, Susan – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
In spite of the prevailing assumption that formal reading instruction is no longer needed once adolescents reach high school, students at the secondary level still benefit from explicit reading instruction to continue developing advanced literacy skills enabling them to access complex narrative texts. This article argues for the importance of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Students with Disabilities
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