Browsing by Subject "Education, Reading."
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Reading ability of entering freshmen international students at a Southwestern state university :
(1981)Students were administered the Nelson-Denny Reading Test, Form A, a General cloze test (representing the upper one-third of reading difficulty of those general textbooks examined), a content cloze test (Non-Science or ... -
Reading readers: An examination of the aesthetic reading events of four experienced readers of narrative fiction reading self-selected novels.
(1997)This investigation focused on (1) transactions between the readers and the novels they had chosen, (2) the readers' purposes and processes, (3) and the contexts, experiential and socio-cultural, that influence these readers ... -
Reading strategies and comprehension of average second-grade readers reading a basal text with or without illustrations.
(1980)In was concluded that miscues reflect responses to the surrounding text to a greater extent than they reflect responses to alternative cues, such as illustrations. It appears that illustrations have less immediate influence ... -
Rethinking professional development concerning comprehension strategy instruction.
(2007)The focus of this mixed methods study was to determine if one form of professional development was more effective than another in promoting teacher change in incorporating comprehension strategies to support students ... -
Spatial perspective taking and reading comprehension ability of fourth grade students.
(1980)Reading is a communication medium for the expression and reception of meaning between an author and a reader. According to Piagetian cognitive developmental theory, verbal communication is dependent upon the speaker's ... -
A study of listening-reading scores of average and deficient readers.
(1983)The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of the listening-reading comprehension scores of average readers to the listening-reading comprehension scores of deficient/remedial readers. The raw scores of ... -
Validation of a measure of teachers' efficacy and outcome expectations in the content domains of reading and mathematics.
(1997)Confirmatory factor analysis procedures failed to produce similar findings as the Rasch procedures. This was an interesting, but not entirely unexpected result. The lack of congruence between the results of these two ... -
Volunteers in our classrooms: Their beliefs about literacy and literacy learning.
(2000)This study illustrates a range of beliefs about literacy and literacy learning. Schools who would make use of these volunteers need to be aware that when they ask an untrained volunteer to complement classroom instruction ... -
Young children's self-perceptions of competency in literacy during one-on-one tutoring.
(1999)Findings from this study provide evidence of the importance of one-on-one instruction for children considered at-risk for school failure in influencing continued engagement in literacy tasks (reading and writing), the ...