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Elementary Teachers' Perceptions of Vocabulary and Self-Efficacy to Improve Students' Reading Levels
Direct linkWimbley, Nina Diane – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This sequential mixed-method study aimed to explore elementary reading teachers' perceptions and experiences of vocabulary practice and student self-efficacy to increase reading achievement. The quantitative approach utilized a Likert-type survey design shared with respondents through email to identify teachers' perceptions of vocabulary…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Vocabulary, Self Efficacy
Peer reviewedHastings, Kathryn – Reading Improvement, 2016
The benefits of engaging with age-appropriate reading materials in classroom settings are numerous. For example, students' comprehension is developed as they acquire new vocabulary and concepts. The Common Core requires all students have daily opportunities to engage with "complex text" regardless of students' decoding levels. However,…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Learner Engagement, Common Core State Standards, Decoding (Reading)
Murphy, Martin G. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined the predictive relationship between adult literacy students' reading assessments in four component sub-skills (phonological decoding, vocabulary, fluency, and spelling) and their gains in reading comprehension from pretest to posttest. Additionally, the adult literacy instructors' content knowledge in reading…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, Achievement Gains
Leon, Marta; Ford, Victoria; Shimizu, Hirofumi; Stretz, April Heimlich; Thompson, Jay; Sota, Melinda; Twyman, Janet S.; Layng, T. V. Joe – Performance Improvement, 2011
Teaching learners how to comprehend text remains a largely unsuccessful attempt in our school system. Drawing from the fields of learning sciences, education, instructional design, and performance improvement, we designed, tested, revised, and released to schools and homes an interactive online program that reliably teaches flexible, widely…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Instructional Design, Inferences, Reading
Corcoran, Roisin P.; Ross, Steven M. – Center for Research and Reform in Education, 2015
The study was implemented in the Title I Marinette School District using a randomized experimental design and parallel quasi experimental design spanning three grades 1-3 in 3 district elementary schools. The Remediation Plus Intervention is a multi-sensory, systematic synthetic phonics curriculum for all ages of students who struggle with…
Descriptors: Remedial Programs, Remedial Reading, Remedial Instruction, Program Effectiveness
Sobolak, Michelle J. – Reading Improvement, 2011
Researchers have long acknowledged the important role that vocabulary plays in assisting reading comprehension. Because of the importance of vocabulary, it is necessary to determine how to ensure that all students are making adequate vocabulary gains. The research base for the best ways to instruct students in robust vocabulary is strong. The…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Socioeconomic Influences
Sipala, Christine E. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Fluent reading hinges on automatic word recognition, yet little research has investigated the acquisition process with repeated exposure to novel words. In this study, elementary students in grades three to six were asked to read two-syllable pseudowords five times each (in varied sequences) during two sessions (n = 49). The goal was to study…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Reading Fluency, Vocabulary, Elementary School Students
Download full textBarbara Goodson; Anne Wolf; Steve Bell; Herb Turner; Pamela B. Finney – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2010
State education departments, in discussions with Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Southeast, identified low reading achievement as a critical issue for their students and expressed an interest in identifying effective strategies to promote the foundational skills in young students that might improve reading achievement. The Mississippi…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Intervention, Reading Aloud to Others, Observation
Sanders, Peter L. – J Reading, 1969
Descriptors: Grade 9, Low Achievement, Map Skills, Reading Achievement
Chappie, David Alexander – 1971
The primary problem was concerned with the uses of hypnosis and waking suggestions as means of improving reading efficiency. A second problem concerned rectifying research design inadequacies related to hypnosis experiments. The procedure used pretest scores secured for rate, comprehension, and vocabulary. Subjects were placed in experimental and…
Descriptors: Hypnosis, Positive Reinforcement, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
King, Norman Anthony – 1972
This study tested the effectiveness of bibliocounseling, group counseling using books as an adjunct, on 48 fourth-grade boys whose third-grade reading scores fell two or more stanines below their third-grade IQ scores. The Gates MacGinitie Reading Test, Survey D; the San Diego County Inventory of Reading Attitude; and the Self-Concept and…
Descriptors: Bibliotherapy, Grade 4, Group Counseling, Reading Achievement
Van Tiem, Darlene – 1985
A study of the vocabulary and comprehension scores of juniors and seniors at Marygrove College was conducted during the winter term of 1983 in order to determine the reading levels needed for success in upper division courses. Because the research was designed to determine the reading levels needed for successful study, students on academic…
Descriptors: College Students, English Instruction, Higher Education, Reading Achievement
Pasadena City Unified School District, CA. – 1965
THE ACHIEVEMENT TEST PERFORMANCES OF TWO GROUPS OF CHILDREN FOR GRADES 1, 2, AND 3 IN TWO PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, SCHOOLS WERE COMPARED TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A 3-YEAR EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM USING THE PHONOVISUAL METHOD OF READING INSTRUCTION. PUPILS WERE MATCHED ON SEX, IQ, AND CHRONOLOGICAL AGE. DIFFERENCES OBSERVED BETWEEN THE MEAN SCORES…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Instructional Materials, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
Marks, Joan Iris Gerstein – 1973
The major hypothesis tested in this study was that low and average ability subjects could use the strategy of root analysis if instruction could be designed so as to compensate for individual weaknesses. Eighty-eight sixth grade middle class subjects were randomly assigned to self-instructional treatments to learn the root analysis strategy.…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Learning, Reading, Reading Ability
Blai, Boris, Jr. – 1970
Harcum Junior College has offered a reading development program for freshmen since September, 1966. Incoming freshmen who score below 30th percentile rank on the Nelson-Denny Reading Test are required to enroll in this program. To evaluate gains made by 51 September, 1970 freshmen who completed the program, the Nelson-Denny pretest and post-test…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Programs, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
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