Det här arbetet är inriktat mot elevers läsvanor och läsattityder. Eleverna som deltar går i grundskolans årskurs två och tre. Förmågan att kunna läsa är värdefull. För att kunna utveckla läsförmågan är både tid spenderad på denna aktivitet samt motivation till att läsa viktig. Syftet med detta arbete är att undersöka elevers läsvanor och läsattityder samt att undersöks om dessa påverkas av vilken plats eleverna befinner sig på, skolan eller hemmet. För att läsning ska utvecklas är det viktigt att vara motiverad. Därför undersöks vad eleverna själva väljer att läsa när det valet erbjuds. Arbetet utgår från två frågeställningar: Hur ser elevernas läsvanor och läsattityder ut och skiljer de sig mellan skolan och hemmet? Vad läser eleverna helst när de själva får välja? Denna studie använder sig av en kombination av kvantitativ och kvalitativ metod, så kallad triangulering och hela arbetet vilar på ett socio-kulturellt perspektiv. Det material som studien utgår från har samlats in via enkäter och enskilda intervjuer med elever. I resultatet framkommer det att elever som gillar att läsa läser oftare än övriga elever och gärna längre stunder. Elever upplever en skillnad mellan att läsa hemma och att läsa i skolan men skillnaden är mer kopplad till deras läsvanor och läsintresset än till platsen där läsningen sker. Om eleverna får välja läser de helst en spännande bok. Skolbiblioteket visade sig vara viktigt för var eleverna får tag på böcker att läsa. Eleverna i den här studien har en återkommande tid varje vecka då de går till skolbiblioteket. Det kan konstateras att läsattityden påverkar elevens läsvanor. En elev som inte gillar att läsa kommer att göra det mer sällan, troligtvis endast om hen känner att hen måste. Hur ofta eleven läser kommer därför att påverka i vilken takt läsförmågan utvecklas. / This study is focused on pupils’ reading habits and attitudes towards reading, the pupils partaking in this study are attending grade two and three in primary school. The ability to read is a most valuable skill. To develop this ability both the time spent on this activity and the motivation for why you are doing it is important. The aim of this study is to examine pupils’ reading habits and attitudes towards reading and see if they are affected by the place where the pupil is doing his/her reading, in school or at home. To improve your skills in reading it is important to be motivated, therefore I want to investigate what pupils choose to read when they have the opportunity to decide that for themselves. This study is based around two questions: What does the pupils’ reading habits and attitudes towards reading look like and is there any difference between school and home? What do the pupils prefer to read when they have the option to choose for themselves? This study will use a combined method of quantitative and qualitative methods, called triangulation. The material in this study is collected from questionnaires and one-on-one interviews. The result shows that pupils who like to read, read more often than other pupils, they also read for longer periods of time. The pupils experience a difference between reading at home and reading in school but the difference is connected more to their reading habits and their interest in reading than the actual place where they read. If pupils are allowed to choose their own reading most will premiere suspense. The school library proved to be important to where the books are found. In conclusion, reading attitudes affect the reading habits; a pupil who doesn’t like to read will read more seldom. How often the pupil will read therefore affects the speed in which the reading skill develops.

The thesis concerns the topic of reading literacy at secondary education students with regard to adolescents' own attitudes and value orientations. The thesis describes, in the theoretical part, the origins of speech as the main means of interpersonal communication and presents development of reading literacy in students' ontogenesis with the emphasis on pubescent students. The thesis defines the phenomenon of reader socialisation and its development in time. The work addresses reader competence, its relation to contemporary education system and its significance in the present-day reality and the media society. In the end of the theoretical part, a contemporary level of reading literacy at secondary school students in the Czech Republic is presented. The practical part explores the development of reading literacy at secondary education students during their life with accent on the change in approach to reading when moving to a higher level of the education system and how the students themselves percieve these changes. Factors influencing the development of the participants' relationship to literature and motivation towards reading are also the subject of the research. The thesis explores respondents' attitudes towards school reading and the position of literature on their system of values in...

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the factors affecting mathematical literacy of 15-year-old students in Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) across different cultural settings. The present study was conducted across three countries. These countries are Brazil, Japan and Norway. The countries were selected on the basis of their rankings in PISA 2000 study. Japan represented a high performing country with an average score of 557, Norway represented an average performing country with an average score of 499, and Brazil represented a low performing country with an average score of 334. The study explored how mathematical literacy is stimulated by predictors related to the students, the families and the school. A separate factor analysis was carried out for each questionnaire such as student questionnaire and cross curricular competencies questionnaire within the data of each country. Since the results of factor analyses of three countries were parallel, the observed variables representing the latent variables were selected from the student questionnaire and cross curricular competencies questionnaire administered in PISA 2000 in order to be used in the structural equation modeling. The included factors affecting mathematical literacy in PISA 2000 are attitudes towards reading, student-teacher relations, climate, communication with parents, usage of technology and facilities, attitudes towards mathematics and reading literacy. The proposed model was tested using structural equation modeling across three different cultures with different performance levels in PISA 2000. The findings of the study show that the latent independent variable having the strongest effect on mathematical literacy is the usage of technology and facilities in Brazil, communication with parents in Japan and attitudes towards reading in Norway. Moreover, the results were as follows: (1) Reading literacy significantly and positively influences mathematical literacy in all three countries. (2) There is a reciprocal relationship between the attitudes towards mathematics and mathematical literacy. In Brazil, the influence of attitudes towards mathematics on mathematical literacy is higher. However, the influence of mathematical literacy on attitudes towards mathematics is higher in Norway. (3) The attitudes towards reading have a negative direct effect and a positive indirect effect on mathematical literacy. (4) The student-teacher relations have a positive effect on mathematical literacy in Japan and Norway. But, in Brazil, this effect is negative. (5) The student-related factors affecting school climate are significantly and positively related to mathematical literacy in Brazil. On the other hand, the effect of climate on mathematical literacy is negative in Japan and non-significant in Norway. (6) Communication with parents significantly and positively influences the mathematical literacy in all three countries. (7) The usage of technology and facilities significantly and positively affects mathematical literacy in Brazil. However, this effect is negative in Japan and non-significant in Norway.