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Using Reciprocal Teaching Strategies to Improve Reading Comprehension for English as a Second Language Students with Learning Disabilities
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Hana M. Almohamadi – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Students who have problems comprehending textual material tend to experience failing grades, peer rejection, and even social isolation. Furthermore, students with poor reading comprehension demonstrate poor academic performance in all subjects, not due to difficulty in learning specific subject content (i.e., math, history, etc.), but rather their…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities
How Can Book Reading Close the Word Gap? Five Key Practices from Research
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Snell, Emily K.; Hindman, Annemarie H.; Wasik, Barbara A. – Reading Teacher, 2015
Vocabulary development is critical for children's ability to learn to read and their success at school. Vocabulary has also been identified as a key factor in the achievement gap, with children from low-income families knowing significantly fewer words when they enter school. Although book reading has long been celebrated as an effective way for…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Intervention, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
Voluntary Use of Online Study Questions as a Function of Previous Minimal Use Requirements and Learner Aptitude
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Grabe, Mark; Flannery, Kathryn; Christopherson, Kimberly – Internet and Higher Education, 2008
This study investigates voluntary use of online study questions, the relationship of study question use to examination performance, and the relationship of aptitude to study question use following an initial phase during which students either received course points for passing mastery quizzes or for completing a designated number of study…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Academic Achievement, Tests, College Students
Reading Skills, Reading Requirements, Learning Strategies, and Performance in Navy Technical Schools. Final Report.
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Sander, Stephen I.; Duffy, Thomas M. – 1982
The relationship was examined between the reading grade levels (RGLs) of 5797 students and their performance in 46 Navy technical training schools. All incoming students to 41 Navy Class "A" schools and 5 Basic Electricity and Electronics strands were administered the Nelson-Denny Reading Comprehension Test and a learning strategies…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Educational Research, Learning Strategies
Motivational Components of Underachievement.
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Carr, Martha; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Achievers and underachievers were tested on multiple measures of ability, attributions, self-esteem, reading awareness, and reading performance. Achievers differed from underachievers in beliefs about utility of effort, self-esteem, enhanced reading awareness, and strategic performance. Achievers, but not underachievers, associated their skills…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education
Predicing College Grades and Helping Colleagues To Assist Poor Readers To Succeed in College Courses.
Wood, Peter H. – 1988
The relationships typically existing between scores on reading tests and college grades are described. The four purposes are to: present some of the typical relationships between reading ability and college success; report upon some of the evidence supporting other possible predictors of college success; describe some of the problems associated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, College Students, Grades (Scholastic)