Whether intermediate-age children like poetry and whether boys and girls express themselves in a similar manner regarding their likes and dislikes of poetry were two of the research questions addressed in this research. Two other research questions were concerned with the possible existence of a difference in reading achievement among intermediate grades and between sexes in ability to comprehend general reading material and in ability to comprehend poetry as well as in attitude toward reading prose and in attitude toward reading poetry. The last two primary research questions were concerned with whether teachers could predict how students would perform on a poetry test and whether students' expressed preferences for poems would correlate with their performance when reading and answering questions on those poems. Upon analyzing the obtained data, it was found that children expressed favorable attitudes toward poetry. With the exception of boys in the sixth grade, boys and girls both expressed positive attitudes more frequently than was expected, making categorized data statistically significant. Reading comprehension achievement showed statistically significant differences by grades for prose and for poetry, but there were differences by grade by sex only on achievement when reading poetry. Regarding attitudes toward reading, there were no differences by grades or by grades by sex toward reading prose; there were differences expressed by students by grades and the main effect of grades only on the two-way ANOVA by grade by sex toward reading poetry. Teachers were able to predict student performance in comprehension on a poetry test but student preferences were not correlated with student performance on their choices for best-liked and least-liked poems. One hundred and ninety-four students participated in the research with a randomly selected group of 62 students from the three grades who participated in the Q-sort for poem preferences. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-12, Section: A, page: 3862. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74980 |
| Contributors | HAYFORD, JANE MORRIS., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 161 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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