The Literacy Press: A Process Model for Reading Development

Autor: Donna Farrell Siegel
Rok vydání: 1990
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Zdroj: The Journal of Educational Research. 83:336-348
ISSN: 1940-0675
0022-0671
DOI: 10.1080/00220671.1990.10885979
Popis: This study identified and evaluated educational experiences, from preschool through high school, that were important to the acquisition of adult literacy. Those experiences were measured using a data collection booklet specifically developed for that purpose. A national sample of 2,177 high school seniors was categorized by three levels of student involvement (i.e., high, moderate, or low) in each of nine variables representing home, school, and extracurricular experiences at one or more schooling level(s) (i.e., preschool, elementary, and high school). Mean reading scores were computed for each level of involvement for all nine of the variables. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) identified those variables that yielded a significant difference (p > .05) in the mean reading scores. A posteriori test results indicated that for the overall population sample, as well as for subgroups defined by social class and gender, the level of the students’ involvement in all nine of the variables was related to th...
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