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Geske, Andrejs; Ozola, Antra – Online Submission, 2009
The results of IEA (The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement) PIRLS 2006 (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) has showed that Latvia has the 6th largest gender gap in reading literacy scores and that is an indication of a serious problem of education in this country. The purpose of the paper is to…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Gender Differences, Context Effect, Educational Environment
Lee, Gabriel A. – Online Submission, 2002
Rauding theory states that two factors, accuracy and rate, explain nearly all the variance in the general reading ability of American schoolchildren (Carver, 1999). Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and regression, this dissertation investigated to what extent the Rauding model could be applied to 92 Japanese university aged young adults…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Word Recognition, Reading Ability