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Chapman, Louise – English in Education, 2020
In an era of smart-phones, tablets and online gaming, it seems that a young person's motivation to pick up a book and start to read is relatively low. The article explores this claim by investigating the reading habits of a class of 23 female students at a single sex school in the south-east of England. The case-study particularly focuses on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Habits, Adolescents, Females
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Memis, Aysel Demiroglu; Kandemir, Hülya – World Journal of Education, 2019
The aim of the study is to analyze the correlation between study habits and attitudes and metacognitive reading comprehension self-awareness, reading comprehension and reading attitude of fifth-grade students. 313 students (193 female, 188 male) consisted the sample group of the study using relational screening model. SSHA-Survey of Study Habits…
Descriptors: Correlation, Study Habits, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension
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Ramirez, Gerardo; Fries, Laura; Gunderson, Elizabeth; Schaeffer, Marjorie W.; Maloney, Erin A.; Beilock, Sian L.; Levine, Susan C. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2019
Learning to read is a critical but often challenging academic task for young children. In the current study, we explore the relation between children's reading affect--particularly anxiety--and reading achievement in the early years of reading acquisition. We hypothesized that reading anxiety would relate to reading achievement across the school…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Anxiety, Reading Attitudes, Reading Achievement
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Gunobgunob-Mirasol, Rosalyn – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2019
Reading is an indispensable tool in the academic world. Most, if not all, activities in varied collegiate courses entail the act of reading. There are many contributing factors that affect one's ability to read and comprehend text materials effectively. Two of the many factors are the reader's vocabulary size and their reading motivation. This…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Reading Motivation, Reading Attitudes, Reading Comprehension
Çifici, Musa; Ünlu, Süleyman – Online Submission, 2021
In this study, the scale named "Survey of Online Reading Attitudes and Behaviours" developed by Putman (2014) was adapted to Turkish after obtaining the necessary permissions. It was concluded that the scale could be used in Turkish education to determine the attitudes and behaviours of middle school students towards online reading…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Reading Processes, Factor Analysis, Turkish
Lori Ann Compagnone Dunn – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Improving reading comprehension for middle school students with disabilities and others who struggle with reading, referred to here as striving readers, is challenging. Formal reading instruction typically shifts from skills acquisition to application in middle and high school, providing inadequate support in the skills for comprehension (Chall,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Scripts, Films, Intervention
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Venegas, Elena M. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2018
Although a subskills approach to reading instruction is merited in improving the reading skills of struggling readers, struggling readers also benefit from balanced literacy instruction. An overemphasis on reading subskills arguably minimizes students' enjoyment of reading and motivation to read and may inevitably result in the formation of…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Self Efficacy, Reading Instruction, Group Discussion
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Thomas, Matt; Yao, Yuankun; Wright, Katherine Landau; Kreiner, David – Reading Psychology, 2018
There is a need to promote growth past basic reading proficiency toward the more substantial idea of reading maturity. The reading maturity construct has a history of being valued, at least in principle. However, it is a complex construct, and this makes its measurement challenging. The present research study addressed aspects of this challenge by…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Test Validity, Psychometrics, Reading Interests
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Asplund, Stig-Börje; Pérez Prieto, Héctor – Gender and Education, 2018
In the majority of the research on boys' and young men's relation to reading, it is argued that boys and young men read too little, read poorly and in all the wrong ways. However, few studies focus on how boys and young men read the texts they do encounter. In particular, there is a lack of research on young men of working-class background, whose…
Descriptors: Working Class, Males, Reading, Identification (Psychology)
Butler, Alisha N.; Hildreth, Jeanine L. – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2018
In 2018, the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) and the National Book Foundation (NBF) initiated a collaborative effort to bring Raising Readers to DYCD-funded program sites. Raising Readers is designed to ignite and strengthen adult participants' love of reading and, by modeling the habit of reading for pleasure,…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Evaluation, Reading Motivation, Reading Attitudes
Bolton, Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Reading fluency and comprehension are necessary to successfully function in school, work, and society. A 2015 study by the National Center for Educational Statistics indicates that the dropout rate for African American males is significantly higher than the national overall dropout rate. Since proficiency in reading strongly correlates with high…
Descriptors: Males, Reading Motivation, Mentors, African Americans
Ariel Lindorff; Jamie Stiff; Heather Kayton – UK Department for Education, 2024
This report outlines the results of the 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) in England. PIRLS is an international comparative study directed by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement. The aim of PIRLS is to assess and compare the reading performance of pupils in their fourth year of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Grade 4, International Assessment
Folk, Amanda L.; Overbey, Tracey – ALA Editions, 2022
Using an evidence-based approach, including the authors' own cutting-edge research, this Special Report shares antiracist recommendations for practice that will help librarians in all settings identify and address explicit and implicit racial bias. Librarianship is still a predominantly white profession. It is essential that current practitioners…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Librarians, Identification, Racism
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Tavsanli, Ömer Faruk; Sadioglu, Ömür; Sezer, Gönül Onur; Kaldirim, Abdullah – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2020
This study was undertaken to examine how parental literacy experiences were reflected in the literacy tendencies and experiences of preservice teachers. It is known that in order to offer an effective teacher education, it is necessary to know preservice teachers by analyzing their literacy practices originating from their parents and take into…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Preservice Teachers, Parent Influence, Elementary School Curriculum
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Chen, Su-Yen; Lu, Luo; Chen, Su-Yen – Reading Improvement, 2020
As a follow-up study to a cross-sectional national study that established the linkage between gender as well as family factors and the likelihood of being Taiwanese adolescent readers, this study attempted to utilize the same data set with longitudinal data to explore whether the association between family factors and being an avid adolescent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Followup Studies, Adolescents, Reading
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