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Megan Dixon; Jane Oakhill – Education 3-13, 2024
There are few measures of teacher professional knowledge of reading comprehension, therefore little is known about the levels of teacher professional knowledge, their motivation and attitudes to teaching reading comprehension. The Knowledge, Behaviour and Attitudes Test for Reading Comprehension (KBAT-RC) was developed from a systematic literature…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Reading Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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Irina Bauer; Tanja Kunz; Tobias Gummer – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2025
In web surveys, no interviewer is present to clarify question comprehension problems, which can be particularly prevalent among respondents with low literacy skills. Although plain language is used in various contexts to improve text comprehensibility, its use in social science questionnaires has not been investigated to date. Using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Surveys, Data Collection, Questionnaires
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Yang, Yanfeng; Qian, David D. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2023
Built on Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory, Dynamic Assessment (DA) integrates teaching and assessment through mediator-learner interactions to promote learner development. This study employed interactionist DA to diagnose Chinese university EFL learners' reading difficulties and promote their reading proficiency in a seven-week study. The design…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Evaluation Methods
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Sonmez, Muhammet; Cetinkaya, Fatih Cetin – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2022
The aim of this research is to set forth the effects of formative assessment methods on reading comprehension. To this end, reading status of a group of students was assessed with formative assessment methods, while that of another group was evaluated with traditional ones. The research was carried out by using unequalised quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Reading Comprehension, Grade 3
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Hossein Kargar Behbahani; Sedigheh Karimpour – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
This study examined the effect of mobile-mediated dynamic assessment on reading comprehension and reading fluency skills of Iranian L2 learners. With 50 Iranian L2 learners, randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups, a pretest-posttest control group design was used. Whereas the control group received traditional instructor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension
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Tops, Wim; Jansen, Dorien; Ceulemans, Eva; Petry, Katja; Hilton, Nanna Haug; Baeyens, Dieter – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2023
Students with dyslexia face particular challenges in higher education. Individuals with disabilities have a right to accommodations to guarantee equal opportunities and participation in education. The present study addresses (1) the frequency of functioning and participation problems of students with dyslexia in higher education, (2) the teaching…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Dyslexia, College Students
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Strømsø, Helge I.; Bråten, Ivar; Brante, Eva W. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
We explored potential profiles of interest, attitudes, and source evaluation by performing cluster analysis in a sample of Norwegian upper-secondary students. Differences among the profile groups with regard to multiple-document use were examined. The profile groups were partly consistent with the default stances described by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Information Sources
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Al-Rashidi, Anwar Hammad; Vadivel, Balachandran; Khalil, Nawroz Ramadan; Basim, Nirvana – Language Testing in Asia, 2023
This research was carried out to comparatively study the impacts of portfolio-based assessment, self-assessment, and scaffolded peer assessment on reading comprehension, vocabulary learning, and grammatical accuracy of Afghan English as a foreign language learners. To accomplish this, 172 learners enrolled at a language institute, through an…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Portfolios (Background Materials), Evaluation Methods, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Yang, Yanfeng; Qian, David D. – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2020
This study used computerized dynamic assessment (CDA) as a teaching and assessment method to promote Chinese EFL learners' reading comprehension, with a quasi-experimental design in which the control and experimental groups were each given three tests but in different formats. Each test consisted of multiple choice questions (MCQs) selected from…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Computer Assisted Testing
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Boubris, Abdelbassed Anes; Haddam, Faiza – Arab World English Journal, 2020
Research has revealed that teachers' thinking processes highly influence their instructional and evaluative behaviors. Understanding teachers' beliefs and theoretical orientations about reading are more than necessary to rethink reading instruction and assessment. The present paper reviews a case study conducted at the Department of English,…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Teacher Attitudes, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
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Callow, Jon – Language and Education, 2020
While literacy research in the area of multimodality includes a range of communication modes, the combination of the visual and verbal modes is arguably the most common multimodal text form used in classroom contexts from posters, charts and information texts to picture books and graphic novels. Assessment of students' understanding of visual and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Picture Books, Learning Modalities
Jeffrey Huffman – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Reading approaches in Japan and other EFL settings have typically focused on accuracy at the expense of fluency. However, reading rate and fluency are important components of reading that are currently being neglected. A review of the literature reveals growing interest in investigating the effectiveness of reading rate and fluency enhancement…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Courses, Foreign Countries, Reading Rate
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Stern, Jonathan M. B.; Piper, Benjamin – RTI International, 2019
This paper uses recent evidence from international early grade reading programs to provide guidance about how best to create appropriate targets and more effectively identify improved program outcomes. Recent results show that World Bank and US Agency for International Development-funded large-scale international education interventions in low-…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students, Reading Programs, Program Design
K., Abdul Gafoor; P., Nisha – Online Submission, 2022
Reading and comprehending the mother tongue is one of the most important basic academic skills required for the meaningful and significant learning of every subject, especially in earlier stages of education. Though National Policy Frameworks strongly advocate an integrated approach to the teaching of different skills of language, the school does…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Native Language, Educational Policy, Literacy Education
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Abdullateef, Shifan Thaha; Muhammedzein, Fatima – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Although some assessment modes have proved successful, many learning problems encountered by low achieving learners need to be fixed by a more procedurally adequate remedial classroom assessment. Many EFL instructors adopt conventional and static modes of assessment rather than flexible and humanistic assessment modes. Hence, the study aims at…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Student Evaluation
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