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Direct linkDanielle N. Maxwell; Jeffrey L. Spencer; Ethan A. Teich; Madeline Cooke; Braeden Fromwiller; Nathan Peterson; Linda Nicholas-Figueroa; Ginger V. Shultz; Kerri A. Pratt – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Reading and understanding scientific literature is an essential skill for any scientist to learn. While students' scientific literacy can be improved by reading research articles, an article's technical language and structure can hinder students' understanding of the scientific material. Furthermore, many students struggle with interpreting graphs…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Scientific Literacy, Science Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Sharron Mata Wisdom – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The road to successful reading can be a tumultuous journey for many students entering middle school. The ability to read text out loud in both an accurate and quick manner is what determines a fluent reader. Additionally, the prosody, or melody, expression and flow while reading leads to good reading comprehension. There are an alarming number of…
Descriptors: Progress Monitoring, Reading Fluency, Response to Intervention, Reading Aloud to Others
Download full textRafferty, Anna N., Ed.; Whitehill, Jacob, Ed.; Romero, Cristobal, Ed.; Cavalli-Sforza, Violetta, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2020
The 13th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2020) was originally arranged to take place in Ifrane, Morocco. Due to the SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) epidemic, EDM 2020, as well as most other academic conferences in 2020, had to be changed to a purely online format. To facilitate efficient transmission of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Teaching Methods, Information Retrieval, Data Processing
Crossley, Scott A.; Allen, Laura K.; Snow, Erica L.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2016
This study investigates a novel approach to automatically assessing essay quality that combines natural language processing approaches that assess text features with approaches that assess individual differences in writers such as demographic information, standardized test scores, and survey results. The results demonstrate that combining text…
Descriptors: Essays, Scoring, Writing Evaluation, Natural Language Processing
Camargo, Jennifer; Navarro, Jenny Carolina Orbegozo – HOW, 2010
Due to the role language and literature play in the construction of social, economic and cultural systems, reading comprehension has become a growing challenge. This study examined how the relationship between English as a foreign language reading comprehension and life experiences while using the "Sight Word Strategy" could prove…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension
Cowles, Lesley A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The report card for the 2008-2009 school year for a northeastern US state indicated that 29% of students performed at or below basic levels on the literacy measure. Previous studies indicated that a cross-curricular instructional design that reinforced fundamental learning skill sets throughout content-area classes encouraged independent learners…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Content Area Reading, Literacy, Academic Achievement
Culmo, Jill R. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of second grade students about reading, themselves as readers, their motivation to read, and their subsequent reading achievement. Allowing students time to read independently during the school day and providing various reading materials in the classroom are options that some school…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Quasiexperimental Design, Reading Materials, Independent Reading
Chen, Chiu-Jung; Liu, Pei-Lin – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of using learner-generated and instructor-provided multimedia annotations on foreign language reading comprehension and attitudes. The four research questions are: (1) what are the effects of using different multimedia annotations on reading comprehension for learners of different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hypermedia, Cognitive Style, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedMatthew, Kathryn I. – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 1996
Examined the influence of CD-ROM storybooks on reading comprehension and attitudes toward reading of 37 matched pairs of third graders. Found that comprehension was higher after reading CD-ROM storybooks than print versions if measured by story retelling, but was no different if measured by open-ended questions. There were no differences in…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Instructional Effectiveness
Bernstein, Margery R. – 1972
The Right to Read program was begun as a result of three elements which came together in July 1971: (1) concern with Mamaroneck's total reading program induced by studies of group test results; (2) a mandate which gave an additional 110 minutes weekly to be devoted by every teacher to the reading program; and (3) an administrative workshop which…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Intermediate Grades
Harper, Janice A.; Ewing, Norma J. – Educational Technology, 1986
This study compared the effectiveness of microcomputer and workbook instruction on silent reading comprehension performance of mild mentally retarded and learning disabled 11- to 13-year-olds. Effectiveness was measured by percentage of correct responses to reading comprehension questions and by observing subjects' attention to task behavior. (MBR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Graphs, Intermode Differences
Van Dusseldorp, Ralph A. – 1978
The third-party evaluation of the second year of the Iowa Central Community College Experience Based Career Education (EBCE) Project was based on examination of project records, interviews with project staff, student and resource persons, questionnaires completed by students, parents and resource persons, and test data collected on students at the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Education, Career Planning, Educational Testing
Peer reviewedAbu-Rabia, Salim; Feuerverger, Grace – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Investigated the relationship between cultural background of Arab students in Canada and Israel and reading comprehension of majority and minority group stories. Findings indicate that, in terms of language education, it is essential to develop pedagogies that respond to the diversity of the social contexts in which the learners are situated. (70…
Descriptors: Arabs, Cultural Background, Data Analysis, English (Second Language)
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the 11th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2014), October 25-27, 2014, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and endorsed by the Japanese Society for Information and Systems in…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Teaching Methods, Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education
GEESLIN, ROBERT H.; SMITH, EDWIN H. – 1967
THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROJECT WERE TO PREPARE AND FIELD TEST INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR USE WITH ADULTS READING BELOW THE SEVENTH GRADE LEVEL. TWO STUDIES WERE MADE IN NORTHERN FLORIDA IN 1967 OF GAINS IN READING VOCABULARY AND COMPREHENSION BY STUDENTS USING TRADITIONAL MATERIALS. THE HIGH DROPOUT RATE IN THE FIRST STUDY PRECLUDED USEFUL…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Dropout Rate, Evaluation
