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Direct linkVeloria Jean Nanze – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The decrease in the number of people entering the accounting field raises a concern in both the higher education and professional industry. Only 36 percent of eighth graders possess adequate reading comprehensions skills and most do not improve before they enter college. Thirty-three percent of students entering community colleges have inadequate…
Descriptors: Accounting, Reading Comprehension, Nontraditional Students, Community College Students
Keilah Marie Ebanks – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study examines the impact of reading comprehension strategies and students' understanding of vocabulary on their mathematics achievement level. In 2017, Louisiana adopted the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP 2025), requiring students to achieve mastery level to indicate grade-level proficiency and ensure they are fully prepared…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Mathematics Achievement, Vocabulary, Grade 8
Turner, Leah Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Standardized assessments are focused on integrating knowledge from multiple sources and developing composed written responses. This requires the students to be able to read and comprehend on grade level, within the various subject areas (reading, math, science, and social studies), which are skills students with disabilities struggle to do. The…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Cues, Reading Strategies
Renee Elissa Lastrapes – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Once students have mastered the mechanics of reading, they are expected to learn new material by reading. This new material, however, becomes increasingly more complex as students enter upper elementary and especially middle and high school. If students fail to comprehend what they read, they risk failure in content courses such as science and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Achievement, Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension
Conway Sledge-Murphy, Felicia – ProQuest LLC, 2011
"Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)," a diagnostic reading tool used in the majority of school districts throughout the state of Louisiana, has been identified by many researchers as a reliable and valid tool to identify reading deficiencies in struggling readers (Good, Simmons, & Kame'enui, 2001; Ritchey,…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Grade 3
Hollimon, Deborah Neal – ProQuest LLC, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine whether there are changes in student motivation to read and reading comprehension when the instructional strategy of shared reading is used with sixth grade students. The quasi-experimental design for the study was based on the pretest-posttest nonequivalent control group design. The sample for the study…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Pretests Posttests, Reading Motivation, Statistical Analysis
