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Exploring Individual Differences in Irregular Word Recognition among Children with Early-Emerging and Late-Emerging Word Reading Difficulty
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Steacy, Laura M.; Kearns, Devin M.; Gilbert, Jennifer K.; Compton, Donald L.; Cho, Eunsoo; Lindstrom, Esther R.; Collins, Alyson A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
Models of irregular word reading that take into account both child- and word-level predictors have not been evaluated in typically developing children and children with reading difficulty (RD). The purpose of the present study was to model individual differences in irregular word reading ability among 5th grade children (N = 170), oversampled for…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Word Recognition, Word Frequency, Predictor Variables
A Structural Equation Model of Expertise in College Physics
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Taasoobshirazi, Gita; Carr, Martha – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
A model of expertise in physics was tested on a sample of 374 college students in 2 different level physics courses. Structural equation modeling was used to test hypothesized relationships among variables linked to expert performance in physics including strategy use, pictorial representation, categorization skills, and motivation, and these…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, Physics, Student Motivation
Categorization, Macrostructure, and Finding the Main Idea.
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Williams, Joanna P. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1984
An inductive concept-identification model of expository text processing, consonant with current theories of macrostructure development, is proposed as part of a reading comprehension instruction model. An evaluation study with fourth and sixth graders is described. Results are interpreted as supporting the model. (Author/BS)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Models
Category Relations and Syllogistic Reasoning.
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Revlin, Russell; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
The conversion model of formal reasoning was examined for its ability to predict the decisions made by college students when solving concrete and abstract syllogisms. Results supported the model's contentions that reasoner's decisions reflect natural language processes in the encoding of syllogistic premises, and follow rationally from…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education
Why Do High School Students Lack Motivation in the Classroom? Toward an Understanding of Academic Amotivation and the Role of Social Support
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Legault, Lisa; Green-Demers, Isabelle; Pelletier, Luc – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
The present series of studies sought to develop and conceptually validate a taxonomy of reasons that give rise to academic amotivation and to investigate its social antecedents and academic consequences. In Study 1 (N = 351), an exploratory factor analysis offered preliminary support for an academic amotivation taxonomy comprising four dimensions:…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Motivation, Academic Aspiration, Case Studies
Selecting At-Risk Readers in First Grade for Early Intervention: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study of Decision Rules and Procedures
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Compton, Donald L.; Fuchs, Douglas; Fuchs, Lynn S.; Bryant, Joan D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
Response to intervention (RTI) models for identifying learning disabilities rely on the accurate identification of children who, without Tier 2 tutoring, would develop reading disability (RD). This study examined 2 questions concerning the use of 1st-grade data to predict future RD: (1) Does adding initial word identification fluency (WIF) and 5…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Grade 1, Early Intervention, Longitudinal Studies