The Effect of Attitudes upon Reading Interpretation
| Autor: | Robert L. Mccaul |
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| Rok vydání: | 1944 |
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| Zdroj: | The Journal of Educational Research. 37:451-457 |
| ISSN: | 1940-0675 0022-0671 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00220671.1944.10881267 |
| Popis: | Under any conditions and in any times studies dealing with the affect of the reader's attitudes upon his interpretation of printed materials would have valuable implications for test constructors, educational psychologists, educational sociologists, developmental and remedial reading teachers and specialists, and subject-matter teachers. Yet a scrutiny of Gray's annual bibliographies1 and Traxler's Ten Years of Research in Reading2 will reveal that there have been no investigations in this field. Related studies8 do exist, but these are concerned primarily with the function of reading in modifying, changing, and engendering attitudes. Semanticists4 have also devoted atten tion to the role of attitudes in reading interpretation; however, their dis cussions have been predominantly theoretical and such evidence as they have offered has not been quantitative. The present study represents an attempt to demonstrate that the reader's attitudes do, or do not, affect his interpreta tion of printed matter. It differs from related studies in that the affect of attitudes on reading interpretation is the subject, not the affect of reading on attitudes, and it differs from the semanticists' approach in that it is quantitative and statistical. THE NATURE OF THE STUDY |
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