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A Mixed-Methods Study Of The Influence Of Accelerated Reader On High School Students' Motivation To Read For Pleasure, Cindy D. Hogston
A Mixed-Methods Study Of The Influence Of Accelerated Reader On High School Students' Motivation To Read For Pleasure, Cindy D. Hogston
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The Accelerated Reader (AR) program is a computerized reading management system developed in the early 1990s by Judi and Terry Paul. The AR program was developed as an extrinsic motivational tool to encourage children to read. Judi developed comprehension quizzes to accompany popular children’s books, while her husband created a computer program that would assign point values to each comprehension quiz. Students read a book, took the computerized comprehension quiz, and were awarded a certain number of points depending on the number of correct answers. During a national teacher conference, Judi Paul introduced her program to teachers. The demand for …