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Chang, Yuan-Cheng; Bangsri, Anongkarat – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2020
This study aimed to investigate whether Thai high school students' perceived teacher support could enhance their reading ability through self-efficacy and sense of school belonging. The theoretical foundation of this study included the theory of social-motivational processes and social cognitive theory. Structural equation modeling was used for…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Reading Ability, Self Efficacy
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Watkins, Victoria – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2020
This article is an investigation into the Reading Partners scheme at a large inner London comprehensive school in England; this research comes from a small scale study I carried out as part of my Masters of Teaching at the Institute of Education, University College London. Reading Partners is a project whereby younger and older students within the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading, Cooperative Learning, High Schools
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Coakley-Fields, Mary R. – Reading Horizons, 2018
What are indicators, or markers, of 'inclusive' reading classrooms? As elementary school teachers across the United States are increasingly required to teach reading to diverse, heterogenous groups of students within the same classroom space, practitioners and researchers seek to identify what constitutes 'inclusion' in reading instruction. This…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Kirk J. Hutchinson – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study examined one school district's attempt to accelerate the academic learning of a population of incoming kindergarten students through the students' participation in a pilot summer incoming-kindergarten intervention program known as Summer Learning Academies (SLA). The analyses examined the end-of-year (EOY) reading and mathematics…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, Program Effectiveness
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Michel, Carine; Quercia, Patrick; Joubert, Lise – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2019
To better identify the distinctive characteristics of space representation in the radial dimension, we have proposed a new paradigm: the landmarks alignment task where two parallel aluminum bars were radially presented. Children had to move a landmark along one bar and place it at the same location as the reference landmark placed by the examiner…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spatial Ability, Children, Dyslexia
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Egloff, Frank; Förster, Natalie; Souvignier, Elmar – Frontline Learning Research, 2019
Teachers' beliefs about teaching have been found to affect students' learning growth. The aim of this study was to investigate effects of teachers' constructivist and direct-transmissive beliefs on learners' reading progress and whether these effects are influenced by students' ability. We measured constructivist and direct-transmissive beliefs of…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency
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Min, Shangchao; Bishop, Kyoungwon; Gary Cook, Howard – Language Testing, 2022
This study explored the interplay between content knowledge and reading ability in a large-scale multistage adaptive English for academic purposes (EAP) reading assessment at a range of ability levels across 1-12 graders. The datasets for this study were item-level responses to the reading tests of ACCESS for ELLs Online 2.0. A sample of 10,000…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, English Language Learners, Correlation, Reading Ability
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Zubaidah, Siti; Mahanal, Susriyati; Sholihah, Mar'atus; Rosyida, Fatia; Kurniawati, Zenia Lutfi – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2020
The main aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the Remap RT (Reading -- Concept Mapping -- Reciprocal Teaching) learning model on low-ability students' achievement in biology. This quasi-experimental research made use of a pre-test-post-test non-equivalent control group design. The population of this research was 125 tenth-grade…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Moore, Andrew; Darracott, Charles R.; Eunice, Jasmine; Harris, Paulette – Reading Improvement, 2020
Reading comprehension ability relies heavily on executive function skills which can be improved with selective interventions. Cognitively engaging physical activity promotes executive function acquisition and may be helpful to improving reading ability. However, unfamiliar and potentially stressful interventions may be counterproductive to these…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Executive Function, Intervention, Physical Activities
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Armstrong, Sonya L.; Stahl, Norman A.; King, James R.; Dyer, James – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
The study to be discussed in the proposed session was an extensive, multi-site research project that sought to answer the following essential question: What does it mean for students to be prepared to read at a college level in career technical education (CTE) courses? The impetus for this study was a need to fully understand what it means to be…
Descriptors: Career Education, Technical Education, Community Colleges, Community College Students
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Chou, Mu-Hsuan – Educational Psychology, 2021
Reading ability has had a prominent role in English language education in Taiwan. The comprehension of materials and teacher instruction in English depends on students' English proficiency, and their achievement emotions regarding competence-related activities may influence how they read and complete tasks in English. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Mwoma, Teresa – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2018
This article reports findings of a study conducted in public primary schools in Narok County Kenya. A sample size comprising 74 children in Grade 3 (37 who did not attend preschool and 37 who attended preschool), 18 head teachers, 66 lower primary school teacher's and five education officers were selected for the study. Learners' reading ability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Attendance, Elementary School Students
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Nakamura, Pooja R.; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Ji, Xuejun Ryan – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2018
In this study, we examine the relative contributions of syllabic awareness, phonemic awareness, and oral vocabulary knowledge in early akshara reading ability from Grades 1 through 5. The performance of 488 students in two states of South India, Karnataka (Kannada language) and Andhra Pradesh (Telugu language), was measured. Results from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dravidian Languages, Syllables, Phonemic Awareness
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Ricci, Leila A.; Osipova, Anna – Exceptionality Education International, 2018
In this era of reading as a priority, research has indicated that children with Down syndrome (DS) can indeed learn to read, attaining functional levels of literacy and beyond. Families of children with DS are also increasingly advocating for reading instruction for their children. However, few studies have examined what beginning educators know…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Children, Reading Instruction, Preservice Teachers
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Qi, Zhenghan; Sanchez Araujo, Yoel; Georgan, Wendy C.; Gabrieli, John D. E.; Arciuli, Joanne – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2019
There is growing interest in the link between implicit statistical learning (SL) and reading ability. Although learning to read involves both auditory and visual modalities, it is not known whether reading skills might be more strongly associated with auditory SL or visual SL. Here we assessed SL across both modalities in 36 typically developing…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Adults, Reading Ability
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