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Jessica N. Maine – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students with disabilities (SWD) often display lower self-efficacy and have a more negative attitude toward reading compared to typically developing peers. Little research has been conducted to measure the relationship between reading self-efficacy and reading achievement of SWD. The purpose of this study was to investigate if reading…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Reading Achievement, Students with Disabilities, Reading Attitudes
David Jamal Jackson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Black men on a national level have historically demonstrated their inability to read at the appropriate grade level (Tatum, 2015). Upon a closer analysis of this phenomenon, Washington (1998) posits that attitude has a profound effect on literacy rates because it has the power to cause Black men to either be drawn to literature or avoid it.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Males, Reading Attitudes, Culturally Relevant Education
Warnke, Tara – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Adolescence is a critical time period when it comes to fostering lifelong interest and practices in reading, yet a decreasing number of middle school students are performing at Proficient and Advanced levels in reading. The purpose of this study was to examine whether providing middle school students with an increased level of choice in their…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Independent Reading, Reading Attitudes, Reading Achievement
White, Kari Lynn Wolf – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Effective engagement with course readings can provide a pathway to success for students in higher education. However, only about one-third of college students are completing assigned readings and among those who do, many students struggle with successful interpretation and analysis of the content (Intersegmental Committee of the Academic Senates…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Attitudes, Nontraditional Students, Reading Skills
Betty McQueen – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The primary purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to examine educators' perceptions of how comic books and graphic novels can promote literacy skills and motivation in readers. The problem was that teachers were concerned about students' lack of ability to focus on traditional novels and lack of interest in classroom reading material.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Cartoons, Literary Genres, Reading Skills
Ives, Samantha T. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The current study's purpose was to validate a revised Story World Absorption Scale (SWAS; Kuijpers et al., 2014) as a measure of habitual adolescent reading engagement. This approach to measuring reading engagement reflects the multidimensionality and theoretical alignment that is currently missing from the reading engagement literature.…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Attitudes, Adolescents, Learner Engagement
Lombardi, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quasi-experimental study examined readers' perceptions of content-evaluative metadiscourse--linguistic and rhetorical signals that indicate an author's willingness (or lack thereof) to "own" the claims discussed in a text. Specific elements investigated in the study included hedging and boosting (markers of doubt or certainty),…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Reading Attitudes, Reader Text Relationship, Authors
Prestero, Angela Cabrera – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The reading abilities of students across the nation continue to be a concern. In fact, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reported that 67% of fourth graders read at or below grade level (National Center for Education Statistics, 2022). This study was predicated on the idea that the reading attitudes and literacy knowledge of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Reading Instruction, Content Area Reading
Darlene Shelmadine Lozano-Moody – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This sequential explanatory mixed method study addressed the effect of technology-facilitated Language Experience Approach on students' language arts scores and reading attitudes of standard I students in Belize City. There were three intervention and three control schools that participated in the study. The study's first phase was a 10-week…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Language Arts
Montgomery, Jacob Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Reader identity has long been associated with reading success and is based on social interactions happening in conjunction with reading tasks. Social feedback, observational comparison, and progress are three of the sources of self-perceptions that inform reader identity. During the COVID pandemic, schools employed various safety protocols,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Middle School Students, Reading Attitudes, COVID-19
Heather Nutt – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Most people would agree that proficiency in reading is essential for students' success in school and throughout life; however, students across the nation struggle to achieve grade-level proficiency in reading. For decades, people have argued about how reading should be taught. Many scientists now agree that body of evidence is known as the science…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Reading Attitudes
Daley, Darlene – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This exploratory case study used purposive sampling to explore how third-grade students' reading identities in one suburban western New York school classroom are impacted by social negotiation. It found that social negotiation, literacy practices, the notion of a chapter book "benchmark," personal reading histories and book access, and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Grade 3, Reading, Social Influences
Jim Pruitt – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This experimental mixed-methods study explores what happens to student Lexile scores when they use closed captioning. Since the emergence of closed captioning tools in the 1980s, closed captioning has become more mainstream and easier to access today than at any other time in history (Rickelman et al., 1991). Thus, it is through harnessing this…
Descriptors: Captions, Technology Uses in Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
Maggie Hoddinott – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study explores the relationship between features of the books students select for independent reading and their motivation to read. After spending 15 to 20 minutes reading from their self-selected texts, participants (n = 340) completed the Motivation to Read Profile-Revised (MRP-R) (Malloy et al., 2013) and provided information about their…
Descriptors: Reading Material Selection, Student Motivation, Reading Attitudes, Independent Reading
Gordon Van Owen – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study used the portraiture method to explore the reading lives of four college students by examining their reading lives in three eras: the present, the past, and the future. Using long-form, active interviews, this study asked participants to reflect on their daily reading habits, their experiences learning to read, and their aspirations for…
Descriptors: College Students, Reading Habits, Reading Attitudes, Aspiration