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The Importance of Intrinsic Motivation for High and Low Ability Readers' Reading Comprehension Performance
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Logan, Sarah; Medford, Emma; Hughes, Naomi – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
The study examined how cognitive and motivational factors predicted reading skill and whether intrinsic reading motivation would explain significantly more variance in low ability readers' reading performance. One hundred and eleven children (aged 9-11) completed assessments of reading comprehension skill, verbal IQ, decoding skill and intrinsic…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Motivation, Intelligence Quotient, Decoding (Reading)