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Download full textClaire Giefer; Whitney Henderson – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2024
Research suggests that reading compliance among higher education students is low, warranting enhancement of educational practices to support reading, especially for students enrolled in health professional programs. Researchers used a cross-sectional study design to explore the effects of a learner-generated podcast assignment as a reading…
Descriptors: Student Developed Materials, Audio Equipment, Information Dissemination, Handheld Devices
Oweini, Ahmad; Daouk, Carma – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2016
The effect of learning preferences on reading comprehension and motivation/attitude has been researched thoroughly in the field of education as a new approach to learning. However, these three elements have not been studied simultaneously using the Dunn & Dunn's preferred learning style theory. Therefore, this study aims at analyzing the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Models, Reading Motivation, Reading Comprehension
Direct linkTarchi, Christian – Reading Psychology, 2017
This study explored the differential contribution of cognitive and motivational factors on the comprehension of an expository text in secondary school students. One hundred and fifty-five 7th and 8th grade students were assessed in prior knowledge, inferences, metacognition, reading motivation, topic interest, and reading comprehension of history…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Secondary School Students, Prior Learning, Grade 7
Lang, James M. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
In January 2011, a trio of researchers published the results of an experiment in which they demonstrated that students who read material in difficult, unfamiliar fonts learned it more deeply than students who read the same material in conventional, familiar fonts. Strange as that may seem, the finding stems from a well-established principle in…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Critical Thinking, Learning Experience, Motivation Techniques
Williamson, Pamela; Carnahan, Christina R.; Jacobs, Jennifer A. – Exceptional Children, 2012
Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, this study sought to understand what influences reading comprehension and how meaning is made from text among high-functioning individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Using a think-aloud procedure, 13 individuals ages 7-13 with ASD read 16 passages at their instructional reading level.…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Constructivism (Learning), Reading Comprehension, Protocol Analysis
Roberts, Judith C.; Roberts, Keith A. – Teaching Sociology, 2008
Reading comprehension skill is often assumed by sociology instructors, yet many college students seem to have marginal reading comprehension skills, which may explain why fewer than half of them are actually doing the reading. Sanctions that force students to either read or to pay a price are based on a rational choice model of behavior--a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Reading Strategies, Learner Engagement
