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Yildiz, Mustafa; Kanik Uysal, Pinar; Bilge, Huzeyfe; Patricia Wolters, Alissa; Saka, Yavuz; Yildirim, Kasim; Rasinski, Timothy – Reading Psychology, 2019
The present study aimed to explore the relation between students' oral reading efficacy, reading comprehension, and academic performance on a nationwide high school placement exam (TEOG). The students were selected from a public middle school. The students' oral reading efficacy, comprehension, and TEOG achievement scores were obtained to figure…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, High Stakes Tests
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Bean, Thomas W.; And Others – Reading Psychology, 1990
Explores the impact of an author supplied analogy on students' comprehension of a high school biology text passage. Finds that, on a short essay measure, there was no significant difference in comprehension between those students who read a passage including the analogy and those whose passage did not include the analogy. (RS)
Descriptors: Analogy, High Schools, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
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Olson, Mary W., Ed. – Reading Psychology, 1992
Relates the process of tutoring a gifted high school student. Asserts that his problems are not unique: bright students often have the same difficulty learning from expository text as average or below average students, and they can be as disorganized as everyone else. Suggests that high schools should offer instruction in content area reading.…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Gifted, High Schools, Learning Processes
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Wedman, Judy M. – Reading Psychology, 1983
Concludes that the affective goals subscribed to by many alternative high schools do have positive effects on some of the attitudes toward school, self, and others held by students, but that there is no relationship between measured attitudes and reading improvement. (FL)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, High Schools, Humanistic Education, Nontraditional Education
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Loyd, Brenda H.; Steele, Jeannie L. – Reading Psychology, 1986
Investigates whether standardized tests measure the same comprehension construct as free recall assessment techniques. (FL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, High Schools, Models