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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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Ness, Molly – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2016
An essential element in teaching children to effectively comprehend text is the use of teacher-led think-alouds. The overarching objective of this study was to explore how to better prepare early career teachers to conduct think-alouds in their classrooms. Data from 31 teachers consisted of (1) questionnaires, (2) lesson plans, (3) lesson…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Protocol Analysis, Reading Instruction
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Chang, Kuo-En; Lan, Yu-Ju; Chang, Chien-Mei; Sung, Yao-Ting – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2010
The work described in this paper explores the feasibility of using of a wireless handheld system (WHS) that supports the individual and co-operative reading activities of students and helps teachers implement reading strategy instruction in Chinese language classes. The experimental findings demonstrate that the WHS benefits students applying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction
Martin, Michael O., Ed.; Mullis, Ina V. S., Ed.; Kennedy, Ann M., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2007
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)'s Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) provides internationally comparative data about students' reading achievement in primary school (the fourth grade in most participating countries). PIRLS also provides extensive information about the home and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Translation, Comparative Analysis, Grade 4
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Oded, Brenda; Stavans, Anat – System, 1994
Examines the effects of an imposed schema on the reader's comprehension of a text. Both a correct and a false schema were imposed on the subjects in the form of comprehension questions geared to one of two points of view. Subjects were 177 English-as-a-foreign-language university students. The implications for teachers of reading comprehension are…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Data Collection, English (Second Language)
Nebraska Univ., Lincoln. Dept. of Adult and Continuing Education. – 1973
The teaching of reading is an important aspect of the total Adult Basic Education (ABE) program. The basic problem was: How is the teaching of reading in Nebraska being carried out? In trying to answer this question the document lays the groundwork by opening with a review of related literature and then discusses in detail the type of data…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Data Analysis, Data Collection