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Megan Dixon; Jane Oakhill – Education 3-13, 2024
There are few measures of teacher professional knowledge of reading comprehension, therefore little is known about the levels of teacher professional knowledge, their motivation and attitudes to teaching reading comprehension. The Knowledge, Behaviour and Attitudes Test for Reading Comprehension (KBAT-RC) was developed from a systematic literature…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Reading Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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Dan Reynolds; Courtney Hattan – Reading Teacher, 2024
The role of knowledge and reading comprehension has seen a recent explosion of attention from researchers, journalists, and policy advocates. Much of this discourse describes knowledge in neutral terms such as knowledge of "the world". That knowledge of the world, however, is woven into the fabric of the gendered world we live in and its…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Literacy, Research Methodology, Curriculum
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Irina Bauer; Tanja Kunz; Tobias Gummer – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2025
In web surveys, no interviewer is present to clarify question comprehension problems, which can be particularly prevalent among respondents with low literacy skills. Although plain language is used in various contexts to improve text comprehensibility, its use in social science questionnaires has not been investigated to date. Using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Surveys, Data Collection, Questionnaires
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Marianne Rice; Kausalai Wijekumar; Kacee Lambright; Abigail Bristow – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
Inferencing is an important and complex process required for successful reading comprehension. Previous research has suggested instruction in inferencing is effective at improving reading comprehension. However, varying definitions of inferencing is likely impacting how inferencing instruction is implemented in practice and inferencing ability is…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Textbooks, Grade 4
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Kai-Yu Tang; Yuen-Hsien Tseng; Yun-Fang Tu – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
This study conducted a systematic review to identify the mainstreams of contemporary digital reading research. We performed a co-citation network analysis to examine the streams and features of key topics in digital reading research. We also performed content analysis and used the bibliometrix R-package to map digital reading research themes and…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Citation Analysis, Literature Reviews, Digital Literacy
Yicheng Sun – ProQuest LLC, 2024
We study how to automatically generate cloze questions from given texts to assess reading comprehension, where a cloze question consists of a stem with a blank space holder for the answer key, and three distractors for generating confusions. We present a generative method called CQG (Cloze Question Generator) for constructing cloze questions from…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Reading Processes, Questioning Techniques, Computational Linguistics
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Hossein Kargar Behbahani; Sedigheh Karimpour – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
This study examined the effect of mobile-mediated dynamic assessment on reading comprehension and reading fluency skills of Iranian L2 learners. With 50 Iranian L2 learners, randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups, a pretest-posttest control group design was used. Whereas the control group received traditional instructor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension
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Frederick J. Poole; Matthew D. Coss; Jody Clarke-Midura – Language Learning & Technology, 2025
This study explored the use of stealth assessments within a digital game to assess second language (L2) Chinese learners' reading comprehension. Log data tracking learners' in-game behaviors from a game designed for Chinese dual language immersion classrooms (Poole et al., 2022) were used to construct Bayesian Belief Networks to model reading…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Game Based Learning
Susan M. Smartt; Deborah R. Glaser – Brookes Publishing Company, 2024
After a universal screening assessment, how can K-6 educators translate the results into evidence-based instruction, targeted interventions, and improved reading outcomes? The timely new edition of this bestselling book has clear and practical answers. Fully updated with the latest reading research and models, this teacher-friendly planning guide…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Elementary Education, Phonemic Awareness, Phonemes
Julie Halpert – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Fewer than half of all students across the nation qualify as proficient readers. Compounding this problem are the underlying challenges to students and their teachers of learning disabilities and dyslexia. Professional development courses can help teachers address these deficiencies. The purpose of this study was to determine how graduates of the…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Reading Difficulties, Reading Skills