Literacy is an increasingly important factor as schools focus on improving student achievement. Literacy skills in reading and writing are critical components needed for both access to the general curriculum and for successful academic achievement. A key component of reading and writing is word identification, a skill deficit for many adolescent students with learning disabilities. This article...

The research aims to examine the effect of peer assisted learning and together techniques on 6th grade female students’ reading comprehension achievements attitudes towards reading. employed a quasi-experimental model with pretest – post-test control group. Data collection tools were Reading Attitude Scale, Comprehension Achievement Test, Habit Questionnaire, student interview forms journals. R...

Internal profile analysis methods that employ multidimensional scaling or cluster analysis continue to receive application in educational and psychological research. One critique of these methods is that there is no guarantee that the identified profiles will exhibit criterion or diagnostic validity. Recently, an external profile analysis technique was developed using multiple regression. The e...

This research used PIRLS 2006 data to explore home factors that influence students’ motivation to read, as well as the relationship between student motivation and reading achievement. The research employed structural equation modeling to empirically test a theoretical model of student motivation to read and home factors that may influence motivation, including parental attitudes and behaviors, ...

With the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 2004, Response to Intervention (RTI) was officially introduced. Unlike the discrepancy model, which determines eligibility in special education with a discrepancy between achievement and ability, RTI was designed to provide intensive instruction to students in the general classroom as soon as difficulties in acquirin...

A compelling body of research indicates that English language learners andlor students who live in poverty are at-risk for reading failure. This study uses data to assess the effectiveness of a mandatory, eight-week, intensive reading remediation program for English language learners and other students identified with reading failure. Results indicated that students received widespread nonsigni...

Understanding the determinants of socioeconomic status (SES) is an important economic and social goal. Several major influences on SES are known, yet much of the variance in SES remains unexplained. In a large, population-representative sample from the United Kingdom, we tested the effects of mathematics and reading achievement at age 7 on attained SES by age 42. Mathematics and reading ability...

The purpose of this study was tc identify the relationship between reading Lchievemert and a set of social and individual variables through the use of a critical path analysis. Data, taken from Cycle II of the Naticnal Health Examination Survey, included statistics on a national sample of 7,119 children, ages six through eleven years. Four variables were included in this study: sex, race, age, ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of sight-reading instruction on the performance achievement of instrumentalists. Participants (N = 30) were high school band students divided into treatment (n = 16) and control (n = 14) groups. Participants engaged in pretest and posttest assessments for sight-reading accuracy using the Watkins-Farnum Performance Scale and for performance ach...

There is a fact that most of the Secondary School students are still low in comprehending reading texts. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to see whether the use of KWL (Know, Want, Learned) strategy was effective in improving the students’ reading comprehension achievement in learning English as a Foreign Language. Non-equivalent groups pretest-posttest design was used in this st...