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Download full textBarber, Sandi; Franks, Shari; Madda, Felice; Rodriguez, Annette – 2002
This report describes a program for increasing student motivation in order to increase reading performance. The targeted population included second, third, fourth, and tenth grade special education students. Lack of motivation in reading was documented through data revealed by pre and post surveys of students' attitudes and interests towards…
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedTopping, Keith J.; Paul, Terry D. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1999
Explores the relationship between practice at reading, student reading performance, and organizational features using data from a computer-assisted student self-assessment of reading comprehension program (The Accelerated Reader). Finds student reading ability strongly positively related to amount of in-school reading practice; amount of reading…
Descriptors: Action Research, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
