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Data Mining to Detect Variables Associated with the Occupational Aspirations of Spanish 15-Year-Old Students
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Eva Expósito-Casas; Ana González-Benito; Esther López-Martín – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2024
The purpose of this work is to identify contextual variables that help to explain the occupational aspirations of Spanish 15-year-old students. This is done by performing a secondary analysis of the PISA2018 test. Data have been analysed using decision trees introducing the students' expected occupational status as a dependent variable (DV), and…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Self Concept
Reading Habits of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Adults
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Rodríguez-Ortiz, Isabel R.; Díaz-Acosta, Ana; Simpson, Ian C. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2023
Few studies exist on the reading habits of the deaf population, and most of those that do were published more than 20 years ago. Hence, changes in reading habits due to the availability to the deaf population of online reading material and portable electronic devices have likely occurred. Additionally, in the hearing population, confinement causes…
Descriptors: Adults, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Reading Habits
Attitudes toward Reading, Reading Self-Confidence, Family Involvement and Reading Comprehension in the Second Grade
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Melero, Ángeles; Villalón, Ruth; Izquierdo-Magaldi, Belén – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2020
Introduction: In literate societies, reading is a key cultural instrument that must be mastered. This process involves cognitive, affective-motivational and contextual aspects. However, we find little research internationally on the relationship between reading comprehension, attitudes toward reading, reading self-confidence and family involvement…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Family Involvement, Reading Comprehension
Evaluation of Reading Attitudes, Motivation and Interests in Preadolescents and Adolescents
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Artola, Teresa; Sastre, Santiago; Jiménez-Blanco, Amelia; Alvarado, Jesús Mª – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2021
Introduction: Attitude, motivation and interests in reading are three fundamental aspects of reading as entertainment. ACTIM-LEC is an instrument designed to measure these components, and also includes other relevant factors in establishing a reading habit, such as attitude towards study and reading preferences. The objective of the present…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Reading Motivation, Reading Interests, Reading Habits
Development and Initial Validation of a Questionnaire to Assess the Reading Beliefs of Undergraduate Students: The "Cuestionario de Creencias Sobre la Lectura"
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Lordán, Eva; Solé, Isabel; Beltran, Francesc S. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
The aim of this research was to develop a new questionnaire for exploring the reading beliefs of undergraduate students, because the only currently available instrument has conceptual and methodological limitations. The paper describes the process of developing the instrument and presents a range of psychometric data obtained from a sample of 558…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Reading Attitudes
Reading Levels of Spanish Deaf Students
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Monreal, S. T.; Hernandez, R. S. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2005
The Reading Levels of a population of 93 Spanish deaf students were examined. All study participants had prelingual profound hearing loss; their ages ranged from 9 to 20 years. All were enrolled in compulsory education during 2002-2003 in the Canary Islands (Spain). They were evaluated with sentence and text comprehension subtests from the…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires