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A Modeling Approach to Identify Academically Resilient Students: Evidence from PIRLS 2016
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Stefan Johansson; Kajsa Yang Hansen; Cecilia Thorsen – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
In studies of academic resilience, the concept is typically operationalized by pre-defined cutoff values of students' achievement level and their social background. A threat to the validity of such arbitrary operationalizations is that students around the cutoff values may be misclassified. The main objective of the current study is to apply a…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Achievement Tests, Grade 4, Disadvantaged Youth
The Book of My Dreams
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Degirmenci Gundogmus, Hatice – European Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This study offers an opportunity for learning the characteristics of elementary school students' dream books that can increase their willingness to read. In the study, for which the qualitative research method was adopted in line with this main purpose, 275 elementary school students that attended different schools at 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades were…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Books, Reading Interests, Qualitative Research
A Modeling Approach to Identify Academically Resilient Students: Evidence from PIRLS 2016
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Stefan Johansson; Kajsa Yang Hansen; Cecilia Thorsen – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2022
Academic resilience is difficult to define in an international setting, since economic levels and achievement standards vary across countries and over time. In studies of academic resilience, the concept is typically operationalized using pre-defined cut-offs of achievement and social background. The main objective of the current study is to apply…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Achievement Tests, Grade 4, Foreign Countries
A Study of the Effects of Creative Dramatics on the Progress in Use of the Library, Reading Interests, Reading Achievement, Self-Concept, Creativity, and Empathy of Fourth and Fifth Grade Children.
Ziegler, Elsie Mae – 1970
To appraise the value of a creative dramatics program in a public library setting was the purpose of this study. Nine public library branches comprised the setting for the experiment. At each branch there were three units: (1) creative dramatics, (2) storytelling, and (3) library usage. Storytelling and library usage were the control group. Pre…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Creative Dramatics, Creativity
The Effectiveness of Microfiche Copies of Trade Books on Selected Fourth-Grade Children's Reading Achievement, Reading Attitudes, and Use of Library Books.
Jennings, Robert Edmond – 1972
Microfiche copies of 112 children's trade books and two Xerox Classmate Readers were put into three fourth-grade classrooms to assess their effect on children's reading achievement, attitudes toward reading, the the use of library books. The microfiche copies of the trade books were matched title-for-title with hardbound books shelved with the…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Grade 4, Independent Reading
A Comparative Analysis of Children's Independent Reading Interests and the Content of Stories in Selected Basal Reading Texts, Grades 4-6.
Bouchard, Louisa-May Decker – 1971
The content of books chosen independently by fourth, fifth, and sixth, graders was compared with the content of four selected basal reading texts at the same three grade levels. The selections of the children and from the texts were classified into twenty-one categories, and then the percentages of the children's choices within these categories…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Books, Childrens Literature