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The reading abilities of trade and industrial education students enrolled in the six trade and industrial education courses of automotive mechanics, building construction , drafting, electronics , machine shop, and welding in the six high school s of Granite School District were studied in relation to the rated readability of basic textbooks used in those courses . Additional relationships were studied between student reading abilities and intelligence, between course grades and intelligence, and between course grades and reading abilities. The mean reading ability of the 388 trade and industrial education students included in the study assessed by administering the California Reading Test for grades nine through 14 , was found to be 10.8 for the eleventh grade students, 11. l for the twelfth grade students, and 11.0 for all students included in the study . These abilities ranged from ~grade six to grade 15. Electronics students had the highest average reading ability measured at 12. 4, while the average welding student was reading at grade 10 . 3. Thece weJ' <= h4 . -J percent or 87 eleventh grade students reading below their assigned grade level and 60. 1 percent or 137 twelfth grade students reading below their assigned grade level. Little relationship was found between average student grades and their intelligence quotients, or between average student grades and reading level , while the correlation between Intelligence quotient and average reading ability was relatively high. The rated readability of basic textbooks used by the students in the six courses was obtained through the application of both the Dale -Chall, and the SMOG formulas. A significant difference was found between the average reading ability of students and the readability of the basic textbook they were using. Reading abilities of average students in automotive mechanics, electron ics, and welding courses were below the rated readability of the corresponding textbooks . Reading abilities of average students in building construction, draft ing, and machine shop courses were above the rated readability of each of the corresponding textbooks . The following conclusions were drawn from the data analyzed In the study: 1. The reading grade level of students in trade and industrial educ ation courses is more important as a factor in determining a suitable level of read ability for a basic textbook than the usual criterion of the assigned grade level of a course or a student's grade placement. 2. A basic textbook should have the capacity to interest the more able students as well as the slower readers . 3. More effort must be expended to help less able readers understand and relate the vocabulary of a technical type course . 4. Teachers should take into consideration the individual reading ability of students in planning their instruction rather than assume all students to be read ing at grade level. 5. Of the factors used in assessing the rated readability of textbooks, vocabulary was more important than sentence length. 6. None of the basic textbooks analyzed exhibited a progression of read ing difficulty from easy material at the beginning of the textbook to more difficult material towards the end of the textbook. 7. Although there was a wide variation in the mental abilities of students, generally students with high mental ability had a high reading ability. 8. The results of applying a one-way analysis of variance to student reading data from two of the courses , building construction and electronics , which were taught in a ll six high schools, indicated the reading grade level of students was not affected by the geographical area in which the student resided.

The present study is a small part of a project that is named Legilexi which includes a screening test where the purpose is to identify children who are at risk of having reading- and writing difficulties. The aim of the present study was primarily to investigate the relationship between phonological awareness and different reading abilities in children in year 1 and 3. A further aim was to contribute to the validation of Legilexi’s screening test. There were 48 children from four different schools that participated in the study, 29 of these children were in grade 1, and 19 were in grade 3. The students in first grade were in the ages of 7;0–8:1 years and the children in third grade were between the ages of 9;1 and 9;11 years. The recruitment of the schools was done in consultation with project managers of Legilexi. In this study the schools were selected throughout a convenience sample, because of Legilexi’s spread throughout the whole of Sweden. Phonological awareness was assessed with UMESOL’s phonological elements; phoneme segmentation, phoneme synthesis, position analysis and segment subtraction. The teachers tested the children with Legilexi ́s test material. The relations between the collected data were later examined together with secondary data from Legilexi. The results showed strong correlations between different aspects of phonological awareness, reading- and listening comprehension. However, ceiling effects were discovered in Legilexi’s subtest phoneme analysis in grade 1. This indicates that the design of the test was too simple for the participating children. The conclusion of the present study was that the results were in line with previous research regarding phonological awareness and early reading development. An important and useful finding was the ceiling effect on Legilexi’s test of phonological awareness

The focus of this study was to determine the unique contribution of I.Q., gender, instructional organization, time on the computer, classroom instructional time, ethnicity and total instructional time to the predictability of achievement gain in a computer-assisted instructional setting in reading. The sample consisted of 2,000 students in grades three and five from a large suburban school district in the Dallas - Fort Worth area. The students were given the Iowa Test of Basic Skills to determine reading achievement gains and the Cognitive Abilities Test to determine I.Q. levels. The study was conducted over a five month period during the 1984 - 1985 school year. Using multiple regression, the data were analyzed.

The purpose of this study is to determine the reasons for the superior reading ability of two groups of twenty children each in the fifth grade of the Oakhurst School, Fort Worth, Texas.

Orientador: Fermino Fernandes Neto / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-01T02:02:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MedinaCuri_Nicolas_D.pdf: 5359652 bytes, checksum: 85c48aedce486066f4e70e8ac3bb7a40 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002 / Resumo: Este estudo teve como propósito analisar os desempenhos em atenção e em memória de um grupo de crianças com e sem dificuldades de aprendizagem na escrita e na leitura, tendo-se em vista que todas elas eram possuidoras de inteligência normal ou superior. Sob o suposto geral de que a atenção e a memória constituem atividades cognitivas envolvidas no processo da aprendizagem na escrita e na leitura, no que a inteligência estaria neutralizada, levantou-se a hipótese de trabalho que pressupõe que as crianças com dificuldades de aprendizagem na escrita e com deficiências no desempenho em leitura, e que apresentam inteligência normal ou superior, mostram baixos índices de atenção e memória, o que não se verifica com as crianças que não apresentam essas dificuldades e deficiências. Com a finalidade de verificar essa hipótese foram examinadas 267 crianças, de 2' e 3' séries de ensino fundamental de escolas estaduais de Campinas, diagnosticadas com inteligência normal ou superior através do teste do Desenho da Figura Humana. Depois foram avaìiadas suas habilidades na escrita e na leitura e, também seus desempenhos em atenção e em memória. Com base nos dados dessas avaliações, as variações do desempenho em atenção e em memória foram analisadas considerando os níveis de dificuldades de aprendizagem na escrita e os níveis de desempenho em leitura como fatores estáveis, mediante a análise de variância com um nível de significação de 0,05. Os resultados dessa análise estatística mostram que as crianças de ambos os grupos (2' e 3' séries) com dificuldades de aprendìzagem na escrita, apresentaram baixos índices de atenção e memória e aquelas sem dificuldades de aprendizagem na escrita expressaram altos índices de atenção e memória, enquanto que as crianças com deficiências no desempenho em leitura manifestaram baixos índices de atenção e memória e aquelas sem deficiências na leitura expressaram altos índices de atenção e memória. Em conseqiiência, de acordo com esses resultados verificou-se a hipótese de trabalho desta pesquisa / Abstract: This study had as purpose to analyze performances in attention and memory of a group of children with and without learning difhculties in writing and reading abilities, considering that all of them have normal or superior intelligence. Under the general supposition that attention and memory constitute cognitive activities involved in the process of learning writing and reading capabilities, in which intelligence would not be relevant, the working hypothesis of this research is formulated. This hypothesis presupposes that children with learning difficulties in writing and with performance deficiencies in reading, presenting normal or superior intelligence, show low indexes of attention and memory. This is not verified with children that do not present those difhculties and deficiencies. With the purpose of verifying this hypothesis, 267 children of 2nd and 3rd series of fundamental teaching of state schools in Campinas werc examined. They were diagnosed with normal or superior intelligence through the test of Drawing the Human Figure. Then they were evaluated in its abilities of writing and reading and also in its performances for attention and memory. Using data resulting from those evaluations, variations of performance in attention and memory were realyzed considering the levels of learning difhculties in writing and the levels of performance in reading as stable, by means of analizing the variance with a level of significance of 0,05. The results of this statistical analysis showed that children from both groups (2nd and 3rd series) with learning difficulties in writing skill presented low indexes of attention and memory. Those without learning difficulties in writing skill expressed high indexes of attention and memory. Children with performance deficiencies in reading skill manifested low indexes of attention and memory and those without deficiencies in reading expressed high indexes of attention and memory. In consequence, in agreement with those results the working hypothesis of this research was verified. / Doutorado / Psicologia, Desenvolvimento Humano e Educação / Doutor em Educação

[pt] A presente dissertação recorre à literatura sobre escolas eficazes e sobre espaços escolares para referenciar a pesquisa em três escolas públicas municipais da cidade do Rio de Janeiro que tiveram desempenho diferenciado em Leitura nos dois primeiros resultados longitudinais do Geres (Estudo Longitudinal da Geração Escolar 2005). A literatura revela que a materialidade da escola é fator relevante na constituição de determinadas práticas escolares capazes de constranger ou de estimular a disseminação social de certos conhecimentos e competências. Mais especificamente, por meio do estudo dos usos e funções de espaços e de objetos escolares como, por exemplo, salas de leitura, murais das escolas e das salas de aula e cantinhos de leitura, a presente pesquisa procura aumentar o entendimento do conjunto de fazeres pedagógicos ativados no interior das escolas investigadas e que guardam relação mais direta com o desenvolvimento de habilidades básicas de leitura e escrita. Com esta finalidade, foram realizadas incursões às escolas ao longo do ano de 2007, em três momentos estratégicos do calendário escolar (início, meado e final do ano letivo) com o objetivo de registrar fotograficamente os espaços privilegiados de suporte e promoção da leitura. Com base nas análises implementadas a partir desse registro, foi possível identificar aspectos relevantes das instituições pesquisadas pautados na natureza, disposição, usos e funções de espaços e objetos relacionados à promoção da leitura, contribuindo para o entendimento da eficácia escolar sob o ponto de vista dos discursos visuais da escola como fatores promotores de aprendizagem. / [en] The present dissertation recurs to the literature about effective schools and school spaces in order to reference a research in three municipal public schools in the city of Rio de Janeiro which have had a remarkable performance in Reading at the two first longitudinal results from Geres (Estudo Longitudinal da Geração Escolar 2005). The literature reveals that the materiality of school is a relevant factor in the constitution of determinate school practices and is able to constrain or stimulate the social dissemination of certain knowledge and competences. More specifically, through the study of the uses and functions of school spaces and objects as, for instance, a room in school for activities of reading and writing, the school`s and classroom`s bulletin boards and an area in classroom with a small library, the present research attempts to enlarge the understanding of the whole pedagogical duties activated in the interior of the investigated schools that keep a more straight relation to the development of basic reading and writing abilities. Aiming that, incursions to the schools were carried out throughout the year of 2007, in three strategic periods of the school calendar (beginning, middle and end of term) with the objective of photographing the privileged spaces designated to the support and the promotion of reading. Based on the analysis implemented from this register, it was possible to identify relevant aspects of the researched institutions, ruled by its nature, dispositions, uses and functions of spaces and objects related to the promotion of reading, contributing to the understanding of school effectiveness from the point of view of the school visual discourses as learning promoting factors.

A ampliação do número de alunos matriculados nas escolas públicas e privadas brasileiras não vem acompanhada de um ensino de qualidade capaz de preparar o indivíduo para atuar na sociedade em que vive, conforme apontam dados de documentos oficias. Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho, que se insere no âmbito dos estudos voltados para os processos de leitura de textos verbais e não verbais, é a partir da análise das habilidades e as competências de um leitor ao término do Ensino Médio, a) verificar a concepção de leitura que permeia as matrizes do ENEM e, por decorrência, as habilidades de leitura nelas prefiguradas; b) analisar questões desse exame no que tange às competências e habilidades de leitura exigidas do candidato, estabelecendo um paralelo entre o que determinam os documentos oficiais e a avaliação na prática. Para atingir nosso objetivo, analisamos 33 questões do Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio de 2010. Nesse corpus, trabalhamos com questões que contemplem a construção de sentido de textos verbais e não verbais, relativas a Linguagens, Códigos e suas Tecnologias que dizem respeito à Língua Portuguesa, diagnosticando uma a uma as habilidades e competências leitoras necessárias para uma leitura competente. Organizamos nossa dissertação em três capítulos, além de uma Introdução e uma Conclusão. No capítulo 1, apresentamos os principais modelos de leitura, fazendo nossa opção pelo modelo sociocognitivo interacional. No capítulo 2, focalizamos o ENEM, destacando suas habilidades e competências. No capítulo 3, procedemos análise de 33 questões do ENEM 2010, focando as habilidades e competências leitoras necessárias para resolvê-las. Os resultados apontam para uma concepção de leitura sociocognitiva interacional, que pressupõe também a decodificação como parte do processo de leitura em pequenos instantes em que se necessita construir sentido para um vocábulo estranho ao leitor. O estudo aponta ainda para uma predominância nas questões do ENEM das competências que envolvem conhecimento de gênero discursivo e reflexões acerca das novas tecnologias da informação. / The increase in the number of students enrolled in public and private Brazilian schools is not accompanied by a quality education that is capable of preparing the individual for active participation in the community they live in, as data from official documents show. The objective of this work, which falls within the scope of the studies focused on the processes of reading texts verbal and nonverbal, is based on the analysis of the abilities and skills of a player at the end of high school, a) To verify the conception of reading that permeates ENEM (High School National Examination) matrices and, consequently, the reader profile prefigured therein; b) to analyze its examinations regarding skills and reading skills required of the candidate, establishing a parallel between the determining official documents and assessment in practice. To achieve our goal, we analyze 33 questions of the ENEM 2010. In this corpus, we will deal with issues that include the construction of meaning of verbal and nonverbal texts, which concern the Portuguese Studies in the area of Language and its technologies, diagnosing one by one the reading skills necessary for a competent reading. We organize our dissertation in three chapters, besides an Introduction and a Conclusion. Chapter 1 presents the main models of reading, making our choice of the social cognitive model. In chapter 2, we focus on ENEM, highlighting what refers to reading in the assessment. In chapter 3, we analyze 33 questions of the ENEM 2010. The results point to a conception of sociocognitive interactional reading, which is substituted for decoding in small moments when its necessary the construction of meaning of words the reader doesnt know. The study also points to a predominance in the ENEM questions of skills involving knowledge of genre and reflections on the new information technologies.

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This study focused on the relationship between reading comprehension and academic achievement of grade 10 learners in the learning area Language and attempted to address the following primary research question: What is the relationship between the reading comprehension of grade 10 learners in their first and second language and their academic achievement in the learning area Language ? The researcher also addressed the following secondary questions: Is them a significant difference between Afrikaans and Sesotho-speaking learners regarding their achievements in reading comprehension (first and second language) and the learning area Language (first and second language)? Is there a significant difference between male and female learners regarding their achievements in reading comprehension (first and second language) and the learning area Language (first and second language) ? A total of seventy-seven (77) grade 10 learners for whom English is a second language were included in this study. The learners' reading comprehension abilities in the first language (Afrikaans and Sesotho) and the second language (English) were tested and correlated with their achievements in the learning area Language (first and second language). The reading comprehension and language achievements of Afrikaans and Sesotho-speaking learners respectively and male and female learners were compared. Resulting from the findings of this study, the following conclusions were made: A significant relationship exists between the reading comprehension of grade 10 learners in their first and second language and their academic achievement in the learning area Language. There is a significant difference between Afrikaans and Sesotho-speaking learners regarding their achievements in reading comprehension (first and second language) and the learning area Language (first and second language). There is a significant difference between male and female learners regarding their achievements in reading comprehension (first and second language) and the learning area Language (first and second language). / Thesis (M.Ed.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.