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Download full textMartha Abele Mac Iver; Marcia Davis; Douglas J. Mac Iver – Grantee Submission, 2024
Motivating today's adolescents to read is a challenge. This article discusses the kinds of literacy instructional practices that leverage what we know about adolescent motivation. It also reviews several evidence-based literacy interventions designed to engage and motivate adolescent readers that can potentially lead to improvements in student…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Academic Achievement, Evidence Based Practice, Intervention
Accelerating Literacy for Adolescents (ALFA): Evaluating ALFA Using a Regression Discontinuity Study
Direct linkMarcia H. Davis; Jason Schoeneberger; Christopher Rhoads; Douglas J. Mac Iver; Xiaodong Zhang; Martha Mac Iver; Samantha Spinney – Grantee Submission, 2024
This paper investigates the impact of assignment to the Accelerating Literacy for Adolescents (ALFA) Lab, an additional semester-long class taken during an elective period, on ninth grade student reading achievement, motivation, and frequency. We conducted a regression discontinuity (RD) study where 1,378 students from diverse high schools in four…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Acceleration (Education), Literacy
Gal Kaldes; Karyn Higgs; Jodi Lampi; Alecia Santuzzi; Stephen M. Tonks; Tenaha O'Reilly; John P. Sabatini; Joseph P. Magliano – Grantee Submission, 2024
The current research used the Proficient Academic Reader (PAR) framework to explore whether reading strategies, task awareness, and motivation predicted college students' literacy skills over and above foundational skills (e.g., decoding, vocabulary). Specifically, the current research investigated the unique contribution of the PAR constructs to…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Motivation, Literacy, Reading Skills
