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St Clair-Thompson, Helen; Graham, Alison; Marsham, Sara – Education Inquiry, 2018
Research in higher education has revealed that only a small proportion of students complete assigned reading during semester. The current studies examined students' reading practices, and sought to explore potential factors underlying these practices. Three studies were conducted. Study 1 utilised a questionnaire to examine how long students spend…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Undergraduate Students, Psychology, Biology
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Siddiqui, Nadia; Gorard, Stephen; See, Beng Huat – Educational Review, 2016
This paper describes an evaluation of an internet-based reading programme called Accelerated Reader (AR), which is widely used in UK schools and worldwide. AR is a whole-group reading management and monitoring programme that aims to stimulate the habit of independent reading among primary and secondary age pupils. The evaluation involved 349…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Intervention, Web Based Instruction