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The University of Southern Mississippi

Reading

2008

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Factors That Are Associated With Students' Standardized Reading Achievement Scores, Cherie Nichole Mothershead Aug 2008

Factors That Are Associated With Students' Standardized Reading Achievement Scores, Cherie Nichole Mothershead

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This study examined the factors that are associated with students' standardized reading achievement scores. The participants in this study were obtained from two sources: a national and a regional sample. The national participants were located throughout the United States of America, and the regional participants were from a school district in a southeastern state.

The data for the national sample were provided by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a division of the U.S. Department of Education, and the regional sample was provided by surveying all fifth grade teachers in a school district from a southeastern state. These two …