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Zhao, Aiping; Guo, Ying; Dinnesen, Megan Schneider – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
This study examined the direct and indirect relations of foundational language skills (vocabulary, syntactic knowledge, and orthographic knowledge), higher-order cognitive skills (inference making and comprehension monitoring), and word reading to reading comprehension in Chinese. Consistent with the hierarchical relations specified in the Direct…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Vocabulary, Syntax, Written Language
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Taylor, Z. W.; Bicak, Ibrahim – College Student Affairs Journal, 2020
This study assessed prospective first-generation college students' knowledge of federal student aid. The research team surveyed 752 prospective first-generation college students to assess what financial aid jargon terms were unfamiliar. Students often reported "FAFSA," "master promissory note," "entrance counseling,"…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Student Financial Aid, Knowledge Level, Jargon
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Keshavarz, Mohsen – Distance Learning, 2020
This study seeks to investigate the effect of distance education and traditional education on the development of print literacy and measure which type has more impact on it. The design of this study is quasi-experimental. In order to undertake the study, pretest and posttest were used in experimental and control groups. Fifty MA students at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Conventional Instruction
Kendeou, Panayiota; McMaster, Kristen L.; Christ, Theodore J. – Grantee Submission, 2016
Reading comprehension is multidimensional and complex. The persistent challenges children, adolescents, and even adults face with reading comprehension call for concerted efforts to develop assessments that help identify sources of difficulties and to design instructional approaches to prevent or ameliorate these difficulties. Doing so requires…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Teaching Methods, Reading Processes