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Julie Halpert – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Fewer than half of all students across the nation qualify as proficient readers. Compounding this problem are the underlying challenges to students and their teachers of learning disabilities and dyslexia. Professional development courses can help teachers address these deficiencies. The purpose of this study was to determine how graduates of the…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Reading Difficulties, Reading Skills
Katie Smith – Online Submission, 2025
The purpose or this study, is to help ELA educators understand the most accurate way to help their students improve their comprehension skills. Methods: The method of assessment that was utilized for this study is the Measures of Academic Progress Assessment (MAP). This study followed ELA students during the 2024-2025 school year on beginning of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English Instruction, Reading Skills, Grade 4
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Lloyd, Zena T.; Kim, Daesang; Cox, J. T.; Doepker, Gina M.; Downey, Steven E. – Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning, 2022
Purpose: This experimental study aimed to examine the effects of annotating a historical text as a reading comprehension strategy on student academic achievement in an eighth-grade social studies class. Design/methodology/approach: A mixed-method design was used to collect quantitative and qualitative data sequentially. First, the authors…
Descriptors: Documentation, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement, Social Studies
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
Gresser, Valerie – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Language is a powerful tool authors use to construct meaning. To better meet the needs of their students, teachers need to learn about how language is used in text so that they can better help their students to comprehend the texts they read. This study investigated how a small group of pre-service teachers (PSTs) in an intermediate reading…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education
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Seyyed Ali Ostovar-Namaghi; Mostafa Morady Moghaddam; Elahe Rad – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
This study investigates the effect of interactive games on improving reading comprehension skills and attitudes toward games among Iranian learners of English as a foreign language. In this quantitative study, the participants in the control group received reading comprehension instruction through traditional models of teaching reading while the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Educational Games
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Kornkanok Charusapsodsai; Autthapon Intasena – Higher Education Studies, 2024
The purposes of the study were 1) to examine the effectiveness of the KWL plus mind mapping learning management on Thai grade 9 students' reading comprehension and 2) to study the participants' satisfaction with the KWL plus mind mapping learning management. The study employed a one-group experimental design, with 25 students from a public school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Mapping, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills
Donald Wayne Meyer – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The fifth-grade boys at an elementary school in Texas consistently perform lower than girls on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) reading portion. The gender gap in reading is not exclusive to this school. Boys score lower than girls on state-administered reading assessments each year in the United States (U.S.) and have…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Males, Video Games, Reading Comprehension
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Nofouz Mafarja; Mimi Mohaffyza Mohamad; Hutkemri Zulnaidi – SAGE Open, 2024
Conceptual understanding is one of the most difficult issues in teaching physics. This study investigated the effect of adopting cooperative learning and Internet reciprocal teaching (IRT) on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) literacy (physics) in secondary school by comparing the cooperative method with the IRT strategy and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Reciprocal Teaching, Physics, Science Instruction
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Beatriz Ortega-Ruipérez; Ana Pereles; Miguel Lázaro – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2024
Aim/Purpose: The aim of the study is to test whether the perception of self-regulated learning during text reading in online teacher education is improved by using a digital tool for the use of metacognitive strategies for planning, monitoring, and self-assessment. Background: The use of self-regulated learning is important in reading skills, and…
Descriptors: Reading, Online Courses, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Technology
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Danielle N. Maxwell; Jeffrey L. Spencer; Ethan A. Teich; Madeline Cooke; Braeden Fromwiller; Nathan Peterson; Linda Nicholas-Figueroa; Ginger V. Shultz; Kerri A. Pratt – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Reading and understanding scientific literature is an essential skill for any scientist to learn. While students' scientific literacy can be improved by reading research articles, an article's technical language and structure can hinder students' understanding of the scientific material. Furthermore, many students struggle with interpreting graphs…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Scientific Literacy, Science Instruction, Reading Comprehension
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Hui Bian; Xinyao Fu; Yuanyuan Wang; Sihai Xiong; Feiyu Chen; Yufei Yang; Di Gao – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Reading English academic articles is the cornerstone of innovative medical education and scientific research. However, limited by both language and professional knowledge, many nonnative English-speaking undergraduate medical students have a fear of reading English academic articles. The purpose of this study was to explore whether cognitive load…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Physiology, Undergraduate Students, Medical Education
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Ha Van Le; Thi Ai Duyen Nguyen; Dinh Hieu Ngan Le; Phuong Uyen Nguyen; Thi Thien An Nguyen – Cogent Education, 2024
The objective of this study is to evaluate the critical reading (CR) strategies utilized by English major students at a university in Vietnam, identifying both frequently employed and underutilized tactics. The study encompassed a quantitative survey of 147 students who had successfully finished a CR course in their curriculum, supplemented by…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Melzner, Nadine; Dresel, Markus; Kollar, Ingo – Metacognition and Learning, 2022
To be able to collaborate effectively and efficiently has been described as a complex and crucial twenty-first century skill. During collaboration, however, a variety of problems may emerge that require groups to engage in effective regulation processes, which is a complex task in itself. Up to now, little is known about (a) what types of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Case Studies
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Yawiloeng, Rattana – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
This study investigates the perceptions and attitudes of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students towards using instructional scaffolding and visual texts to enhance reading comprehension. The theoretical framework of this study is underpinned by the notions of scaffolding and multiliteracies. Thirty-four EFL undergraduate students studying an…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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