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Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez Michael J. Kieffer Gina Biancarosa Joanna A. Christodoulou Catherine E. Snow 《Reading and writing》2011,24(3):339-354
The development of reading skills in language minority (LM) learners, particularly during the middle school years, remains
unclear despite the increasing need for educators to serve this rapidly growing population. In this study, the English reading
comprehension growth of middle school LM learners was investigated using a longitudinal design and the simple view of reading
as a theoretical framework. Students were assessed at four time points between fifth and seventh grades on standardized measures
of listening comprehension, word reading, and reading comprehension. Individual growth modeling revealed that both listening
comprehension and word reading assessed in fifth grade predicted the elevation of students’ developmental trajectories in
reading comprehension. However, neither skill predicted students’ growth in reading comprehension, and there was no significant
variation across children in growth rates, indicating that students in seventh grade remained on a trajectory established
in fifth grade. The implications of the slowing rate of reading comprehension development during the middle school years are
discussed. 相似文献
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Explicitly informing students about learning goals has been argued to foster intentional learning. This study tested three
theoretical hypotheses regarding the facilitating effects of learning goals by investigating 72 students’ actual reading behaviour
and cognitive processes (i.e., the use of learning goals). Participants studied a text presented on 15 separate computer screens
with/without learning goals. In line with the three hypotheses, the analyses focused on three aspects: students’ interpretations
of the learning goals, information selection processes and monitoring behaviour. Results indicated variability among students
in their perceptions of the learning goals in terms of goal consistency and specificity. Students in the learning goal condition
recorded more goal-relevant information in their notes. However, only few students deliberately used learning goals to monitor
their goal-directed activities while studying the text. Analysis of students’ reading behaviour and cognitive processes suggests
that the absence of significant performance differences between the conditions can be explained by referring to students’
actual use of learning goals. 相似文献
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Lawrence Jun Zhang 《Instructional Science》2008,36(2):89-116
The study explored English as a Second Language (ESL) learner development. In particular, it focused on investigating learners’
understanding of reading and their willingness to be engaged in strategic reading in participatory classroom activities. It
also examined possible effects of such pedagogy on reading performance. The context was a two-month strategy-based reading
instruction program, set within a constructivist framework. The program emphasized developing students’ academic reading proficiency.
The study, quasi-experimental in design, involved a control group and an experimental group, both of whom were ESL students
from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The students were expected to satisfy an intensive English communication skills
requirement in order to be successfully matriculated into English-medium universities in Singapore. The results showed that
the teacher’s strategy-based instructional intervention evolving around participatory activities affected changes in the ESL
students’ use of reading strategies and improvement in comprehension. These findings are discussed in relation to PRC students
in study-abroad contexts, especially the cultures of learning that they bring along with them. Recommendations for further
research are also made.
I have been granted permission to use all the materials presented in this article and I declare that the participants’ names
that are referred to in this study are not their real names. 相似文献
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AbstractThis study aims to identify the predictors of Chinese reading and literacy skills among Chinese school children in Taiwan. Participants recruited in the study were 182 Grade 1 elementary school students. First, data were collected on these students’ literacy skills, which comprised morphological awareness, orthography processing, visual perception skills, phonological awareness, and rapid automatised naming. In Grade 2, data were collected from these students on their word decoding skills, which comprised character recognition and reading fluency. Finally, in Grade 3, data were collected on the Chinese comprehension skills of the same students. A structural equation model examined the direct and indirect effects of students’ literacy skills at Grade 1 on their reading comprehension at Grade 3, with students’ word decoding at Grade 2 acting as a mediator. Results showed that reading comprehension of students at Grade 3 was predicted by their literacy skills at Grade 1. 相似文献
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Stephen Billett 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2005,32(1):49-66
This paper proposes co-opting high school students’ paid part-time work experiences to develop their critical understanding
of the world of work, beyond their schooling through post-school pathways. It argues that unlike work experience program or
work placements organised through schools, students’ paid part-time employment provides authentic workplace experiences that
have the potential to inform students deeply and critically about the world of work. These experiences include the reciprocal
obligations that arise from paid employment and, as such, provide a rich base for high school students to explore the world
of work, relationships in the workplace, what constitutes more and less valued work and how work is organised and rewarded.
The co-opting of students’ work experiences for school-based activities may provide a useful base to explore the world of
work both for those students who are employed part-time and those not employed in part-time work, but able to learn from their
peers’ experiences. To assist achieving these goals some pedagogic tools are required to effectively describe, analyse and
illuminate these experiences in classroom settings. A way of describing and critically appraising this paid work is proposed
through individual and collective consideration of the activities and interactions that constitute students’ paid work experience.
Given the difficulty of organising workplace placements and work experience programs, and the potentially richer outcomes,
co-opting students’ paid work experiences presents a viable and worthwhile resource available in most classrooms for learning
more about the world of work. 相似文献
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Kristen D. Ritchey 《Reading and writing》2008,21(1-2):27-47
This study examined the development of beginning writing skills in kindergarten and the relationship between early writing
skills and early reading skills. Sixty children were assessed on beginning writing skills (including letter writing, individual
sound spelling, and real and nonsense word spelling) and beginning reading skills (including letter name and letter sound
knowledge, global early reading ability, phonological awareness, and word reading). Children’s beginning writing abilities
are described, and they exhibited a range of proficiency in their ability to write letters, spell sounds, and spell real and
nonsense words. Global early reading proficiency, phonological awareness, and/or letter sound fluency predicted letter writing,
sound spelling, and spelling of real and nonsense words.
Appreciation is expressed to the participating students and teachers at Dwight D. Eisenhower School and to Margaret Boudreau
and Joan Foley for assistance in scoring students’ responses. 相似文献
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Els de Koning Monique Boekaerts 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2005,20(3):289-308
This article reports on a study regarding the school-identification of 1819 first-year students in secondary vocational education.
We measured the school-identification of these adolescents and used the perspective of self-regulation to define three blocks
of potential determinants, including the students’ personal goals (1) their appraisals of the school and classroom (2), and
their peer- and home-identities (3). One other block included students’ personal characteristics, such as general ability
(i.e., course-level) and gender (4). In a two-wave regression procedure we investigated the contributions of the four blocks
of potential determinants in explaining students’ school-identification. The first wave showed three key-determinants, including
students’ appraisals of teacher-expectation and course-utility and the extent to which they felt alienated from their school.
Of secondary importance were students’ relational identities, with peer-identity being more important than home-identity.
Personal goals were the least important determinants. The second wave showed how the key-determinants were explained by the
students’ appraisals of mutual-support, and involvement, fairness, humour, learning-support, reward and personal respect of
their teachers. Elaborate interpretations of the results are provided in the discussion. 相似文献
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Aaron P. G. Joshi R. M. Ayotollah Mahboobeh Ellsberry Annie Henderson Janet Lindsey Kim 《Reading and writing》1999,11(2):89-127
Word recognition skill is the foundation of the reading process. Word recognition could be accomplished by two major strategies: phonological decoding and sight-word reading, the latter being a marker for proficient reading. There is, however, a controversy regarding the relationship between decoding and sight-word reading, whether the two are independent or the latter is built on the foundations of the former. A related controversy about instructional strategy could be whether to use whole-word method to improve word recognition skills, or to first build decoding skills and then introduce sight words. Five goals were set up to address these issues: (a) developing a criterion that can be used easily by classroom teachers to assess sight-word reading ability, (b) examining this relationship between decoding and sight-word reading, (c) identifying the mechanism that can explain the relationship, (d) examining factors that facilitate sight-word reading, and (e) discussing potential instructional implications of these findings. In order to accomplish these goals, naming time and word-naming accuracy of three groups of subjects (elementary school children, children identified as having reading disability, and college students) were studied by using a variety of verbal materials. The over-all conclusions are that the difference in naming time of letters and words can be used as a metric for assessing sight-word reading skill. Sight-word reading appears to be intimately related to decoding. Sight-word reading is accomplished by parallel processing of constituent letters of words and is influenced also by the semantic nature of words. It is conjectured that sight-word reading instruction is likely to be successful if decoding skills are firmly established first. 相似文献
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This paper reports the development of critical thinking of urban high school students in the Chinese city of Xi’an. It presents
the assessment of the students’ two components of critical thinking: dispositions towards critical thinking and critical thinking
skills, using the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory and the California Critical Thinking Skills Test. Results
show that the students’ dispositions toward critical thinking are at an average level while their critical thinking skills
are very low. This research also shows that there is no significant difference between students from science classes and arts
classes in their critical thinking dispositions while science students have a higher level of critical thinking skills. Students
from advanced classes have a higher level of the two components of critical thinking than their counterparts from general
classes. There are no differences between male students and female students in both components.
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新课程背景下高中生英语阅读动机培养的实践 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
杨艳平 《四川教育学院学报》2009,25(4):104-107
针对我国高中英语阅读课堂教学的现状及面临的问题,指出了培养高中生英语阅读动机的可行性,并在《新课标》的指引下,结合理论提出了培养高中生英语阅读动机的实践方向,如设计准确而具体的课时目标、尝试合作学习、积极开发课程资源、扩大课外阅读量、指导学生制定计划、培训阅读策略、改革评价机制、培养学生的情感态度等。 相似文献
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Tamera B. Murdock Annes S. Beauchamp Amber M. Hinton 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2008,23(4):477-492
The frequency of cheating in today’s classrooms undermines educators’ efforts and threatens students’ learning. Data from
444 high school students in 48 math and science classrooms at two time points were analyzed to examine the classroom and individual
influences on students’ attributions of blame for cheating and to examine the relationship between students’ attributions
of blame for cheating and subsequent cheating behavior. Hierarchical linear modeling revealed that student-level and aggregate
views of teacher characteristics were related to concurrent and subsequent attribution of cheating blame to teachers and to
subsequent cheating behaviors, over and above the influence of moral emotion dispositions. 相似文献
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Todd Campbell Shaing Kwei Wang Hui-Yin Hsu Aaron M. Duffy Paul G. Wolf 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2010,19(5):505-511
This position paper proposes the enhancement of teacher and student learning in science classrooms by tapping the enormous
potential of information communication and technologies (ICTs) as cognitive tools for engaging students in scientific inquiry.
This paper serves to challenge teacher-held assumptions about students learning science ‘from technology’ with a framework
and examples of students learning science ‘with technology’. Whereas a high percentage of students are finding their way in
using ICTs outside of school, for the most part they currently are not doing so inside of school in ways that they find meaningful
and relevant to their lives. Instead, the pedagogical approaches that are most often experienced are out-of-step with how
students use ICTs outside of schools and are not supportive of learning framed by constructivism. Here we describe a theoretical
and pedagogical foundation for better connecting the two worlds of students’ lives: life in school and life outside of school.
This position paper is in response to the changing landscape of students’ lives. The position is transformative in nature
because it proposes the use of cyber-enabled resources for cultivating and leveraging students new literacy skills by learning
‘with technology’ to enhance science learning. 相似文献
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This study investigated the benefits of computer‐assisted instruction (CAI) for middle‐school students attending remedial reading classes. As a supplement to a strong language‐based reading curriculum, a CAI programme that works on strengthening phonics word identification skills was provided to students in the treatment group. These students were compared with control students taught by the same teacher but without CAI support. Students in the treatment group showed greater reading gains than control students. Group differences in gain scores were significant in the area of decoding skills. These results show that a skills‐based CAI programme can boost decoding for struggling readers in middle school. 相似文献
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Joshua Gisemba Bagaka��s 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2011,9(4):817-842
The study identified two dimensions of teacher self-efficacy and practices and five dimensions of students’ mathematics self-efficacy
and sought to determine the extent to which teacher characteristics and practices can enhance secondary school students’ self-efficacy.
Data were collected from 13,173 students in 193 teachers’ classrooms from 141 schools in the 10 districts of Lake Victoria
Region of Kenya. Two-level hierarchical linear model revealed that teachers’ frequent use of mathematics homework, their level
of interest and enjoyment of mathematics, as well as their ability and competence in teaching mathematics were found to play
a key role in promoting students’ mathematics self-efficacy. Teachers’ ability and competence in teaching were also found
to be effective in narrowing the gender gap in students’ self-confidence and competence in mathematics. The study recommends
that teacher training colleges emphasize such teacher practices and values in order to enhance students’ mathematics self-efficacy,
reduce their level of anxiety and fear of mathematics, and consequently, enhance their achievement in mathematics. Professional
development opportunities should also be made available to in-service teachers to continually update their knowledge and skills
and develop new strategies for teacher effectiveness. 相似文献
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Many struggling readers, students with English as a second language, and children with disabilities do not engage in the strategies that good readers use when reading for understanding. Reading comprehension depends upon the students’ ability to successfully use strategies to monitor and control their own comprehension. Teachers need to help students develop skills that will aid in reading comprehension. The think-aloud is one strategy that can help struggling readers improve fluency and comprehension. One of the most important components to determine the success of the think-aloud is the teacher’s ability to model and facilitate the think-aloud procedure. The teacher needs to have a basic understanding of what is meant to be accomplished using this method. This article profiles how three teachers model and facilitate a think-aloud with three struggling readers. 相似文献
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Conclusion We feel that this program has been enormously beneficial in improving student’s writing skills, interpersonal skills, and
computer literacy. According to Principal Linda Perdaems, “This program has had a powerful impact on participating students’
lives. It has opened their eyes to the world of business, helped them set goals for their education, and given them another
adult with whom to build a relationship. The program has met and surpassed all expectations.” Teachers feel that as students
experience a positive link with the workplace, they are motivated to do better in school. We have also had the pleasure of
watching the participating students’ self-esteem blossom under the warmth and light provided through this meaningful and supportive
relationship with an additional caring adult.
She researches technology integration and implementation and also teaches related courses in the College of Education and
Human Development. 相似文献
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Meng-Jung Tsai Chung-Yuan Hsu Chin-Chung Tsai 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2012,21(2):246-254
Due to a growing trend of exploring scientific knowledge on the Web, a number of studies have been conducted to highlight
examination of students’ online searching strategies. The investigation of online searching generally employs methods including
a survey, interview, screen-capturing, or transactional logs. The present study firstly intended to utilize a survey, the
Online Information Searching Strategies Inventory (OISSI), to examine users’ searching strategies in terms of control, orientation,
trial and error, problem solving, purposeful thinking, selecting main ideas, and evaluation, which is defined as implicit
strategies. Second, this study conducted screen-capturing to investigate the students’ searching behaviors regarding the number
of keywords, the quantity and depth of Web page exploration, and time attributes, which is defined as explicit strategies.
Ultimately, this study explored the role that these two types of strategies played in predicting the students’ online science
information searching outcomes. A total of 103 Grade 10 students were recruited from a high school in northern Taiwan. Through
Pearson correlation and multiple regression analyses, the results showed that the students’ explicit strategies, particularly
the time attributes proposed in the present study, were more successful than their implicit strategies in predicting their
outcomes of searching science information. The participants who spent more time on detailed reading (explicit strategies)
and had better skills of evaluating Web information (implicit strategies) tended to have superior searching performance. 相似文献
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This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive strategy instruction (CSI) on Chinese reading comprehension
of Hong Kong low achieving students. A total of 88 Grade 7 students from four intact Chinese language remedial groups were
randomly assigned to treatment and control conditions. Students in the treatment group received a 6-week Chinese CSI Program
in their regular Chinese language lessons. The findings in this study generally supported that the Program had a positive
impact on the reading development of low achieving students. Students who received strategy instruction made superior gains
in comprehension performance, used more strategies during their reading process, had more knowledge about, strategy use, and
showed a more positive attitude toward the reading instruction than did their peers who received traditional Chinese language
instruction. Students’ improvements on their strategy use and reading comprehension were maintained 4 months after the termination
of the Program. However, the positive treatment effects of the Program were not transferred to other school subject materials,
and students’ reading motivation did not have significant changes after the Program. Factors contributing to the success of
the Program as well as its limitations are discussed. 相似文献