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Muijselaar, Marloes; Swart, Nicole; Steenbeek-Planting, Esther; Droop, Mienke; Verhoeven, Ludo; de Jong, Peter – Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Previous studies have shown that instruction of reading strategies is an effective method for enhancing reading comprehension. However, many of the interventions in these studies focused on small groups of (poor) comprehenders and were provided by research assistants, making it time-consuming and relatively expensive. The authors implemented a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies
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Caponera, Elisa; Sestito, Paolo; Russo, Paolo M. – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of students' reading literacy, measured by the PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) test, on their performance in the TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) mathematics and science tests. The data on 4,125 Italian students from 199 schools were analyzed:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Literacy, Mathematics Achievement