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Insight Into How College Freshmen Understand Their Reading And Text Experiences, Jolie Dorrell
Insight Into How College Freshmen Understand Their Reading And Text Experiences, Jolie Dorrell
CUP Ed.D. Dissertations
This qualitative case study was designed to add insight to the scholarly literature about how college freshmen understand and describe their reading experiences. Two research questions guided this study: How do college freshmen understand and describe their educational reading experiences, and how do college freshmen understand the difference between college level reading and the reading experiences they had in high school. The researcher utilized semistructured interviews with a sample of 13 participants in a rural county in the western portion of the United States. Participants also provided textual samples from their freshman level college courses. Each participant had completed at …
How Students’ Reading Habits Are Affected By Library Genrefication, Sarah Fleming
How Students’ Reading Habits Are Affected By Library Genrefication, Sarah Fleming
CUP Ed.D. Dissertations
Reading for pleasure has multiple benefits, including an increase in math and science skills, in the capability to empathize, and in inferential abilities. Unfortunately, as students reach adolescence, there is a decline in reading for pleasure. The purpose of this case study was to explore what effect the genrefication of a school’s library may have on the reading habits of self-identified reluctant readers in the seventh grade. The research questions of this study were focused on self-efficacy in terms of reading skill and self-selection materials, as well as time spent reading for pleasure. The study site was a public middle …
The Relationship Between Reading Level And Standardized Achievement Results, Monifa Johnson
The Relationship Between Reading Level And Standardized Achievement Results, Monifa Johnson
CUP Ed.D. Dissertations
This quantitative study examined the relationship between eighth grade ELA MAAP achievement and DRP score in lowest performing students. For this research study, lowest performing students are students who scored in the bottom 25% of their class on the eighth grade ELA MAAP during the 2016–2017 school year. This study included a total population sample of 87 students who were in ninth grade during the 2017–2018 school year at a public high school in Mississippi and who were identified as lowest performing on the 2016–2017 eighth grade ELA MAAP. A Pearson product-moment correlation and multiple linear regression were used to …