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So Much More than SQ3R: A Life History of Francis P. Robinson
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Stahl, Norman A.; Armstrong, Sonya L. – Reading Psychology, 2020
This manuscript is an examination of a life well lived with the professional contributions of a leader who served across the fields of educational psychology, counseling, and literacy. Francis P. Robinson was a pioneer in the development of postsecondary literacy theory, research, and pedagogy. Although he is most widely known for what is perhaps…
Descriptors: Biographies, Reading Research, Researchers, Educational Psychology
The Relationship between a Silent Reading Fluency Instructional Protocol on Students' Reading Comprehension and Achievement in an Urban School Setting
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Rasinski, Timothy; Samuels, S. Jay; Hiebert, Elfrieda; Petscher, Yaacov; Feller, Karen – Reading Psychology, 2011
Reading fluency has been identified as a key component in effective literacy instruction (National Reading Panel, 2000). Instruction in reading fluency has been shown to lead to improvements in reading achievement. Reading fluency instruction is most commonly associated with guided repeated oral reading instruction. In the present retrospective…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Reading Comprehension, Silent Reading, Reading Fluency
Teacher and Student Perceptions of Boys' and Girls' Reading Motivation
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Coddington, Cassandra S.; Guthrie, John T. – Reading Psychology, 2009
The purpose of this study was to compare teacher and student perceptions of motivation for reading. Motivational constructs were theoretically derived from previous work on efficacy and task orientation. First-grade students and teachers were asked to complete parallel reading motivation questionnaires. Results suggest both first-grade teachers…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Reading Motivation, Teacher Attitudes
Motivation for Reading and Middle School Students' Performance on Standardized Testing in Reading
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Mucherah, Winnie; Yoder, Alyssa – Reading Psychology, 2008
This study examined middle school students' reading motivation and its relations to their performance on a standardized test (ISTEP+) in reading. Participants included 388 sixth- and eighth-grade students from two public middle schools. There were 229 females and 159 males. Participants responded to the Reading Motivation Questionnaire after they…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Self Efficacy, Standardized Tests
How Special Educators Assess Reading Comprehension: Some Concerns.
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Lazarus, Belinda Davis; McKenna, Michael C. – Reading Psychology, 1994
Discusses three significant developments in comprehension theory (integration of information, prior knowledge, and prose organization) together with how certain innovative testing strategies can be used to match theory with format. Finds that six of the tests commonly used by special educators assess either a single dimension of reading…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Prior Learning, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
Examining Visual-Verbal Associations in Children with and without Reading Disorder
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Littlefield, Lauren M.; Klein, Evelyn R. – Reading Psychology, 2005
The purpose of this study was to investigate verbal working memory processing both before and after providing semantically elaborated training sentences designed to enhance memory for symbol-word (visual-verbal) pairs. Abilities of 20 children diagnosed with Reading Disorder (RD) and 20 age-matched peers who were normally achieving in reading (NA)…
Descriptors: Semantics, Memory, Reading Difficulties, Word Recognition