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Retelsdorf, Jan; Koller, Olaf; Moller, Jens – Learning and Instruction, 2011
This research aimed at identifying unique effects of reading motivation on reading performance when controlling for cognitive skills, familial, and demographic background. We drew upon a longitudinal sample of N = 1508 secondary school students from 5th to 8th grade. Two types of intrinsic reading motivation (reading enjoyment, reading for…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Reading Motivation, Competition, Literature Appreciation
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Olive, Thierry; Favart, Monik; Beauvais, Caroline; Beauvais, Lucie – Learning and Instruction, 2009
This study investigated the cognitive effort of 5th and 9th graders while writing a text. We manipulated genre (narrative text vs. argumentative text) and tested how level of handwriting automatisation contributes to cognitive effort and fluency in writing. The participants were 23 students from Grade 5 and 21 from Grade 9, who wrote two texts…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reaction Time, Handwriting, Grade 9