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Independent Reading: The Relationship of Challenge, Non-Fiction and Gender to Achievement
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Topping, K. J.; Samuels, J.; Paul, T. – British Educational Research Journal, 2008
To explore whether different balances of fiction/non-fiction reading and challenge might help explain differences in reading achievement between genders, data on 45,670 pupils who independently read over 3 million books were analysed. Moderate (rather than high or low) levels of challenge were positively associated with achievement gain, but…
Descriptors: Independent Reading, Reading Achievement, Achievement Gains, Gender Differences
Combined Longitudinal Effects of Attitude and Subjective Norms on Student Outcomes in a Web-Enhanced Course: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach
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Sivo, Stephen A.; Pan, Cheng-Chang; Hahs-Vaughn, Debbie L. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
Factors affecting the student use of a course management system in a web-enhanced course are investigated using the technology acceptance model. Represented in the present study is the second phase of the analysis, with a focus on the causal relationship of subjective norms to student attitudes towards WebCT and their effect on three dependent…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Online Courses, Structural Equation Models, Web Based Instruction