Sentences with phrase «effects on comprehension»

Peer - Assisted Learning / Literacy Strategies was found to have potentially positive effects on alphabetics, no discernible effects on fluency, and mixed effects on comprehension for beginning readers.

The software, Carry - a-Tune (CAT) was originally developed to improve singing; however, since it involves a repeated reading format, we used it to determine its effect on comprehension and reading achievement.

25 For a discussion of studies showing fluency's effect on comprehension and decision making, see generally Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow 59 — 70 (2011).

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But preliminary results already show powerful gap - closing effects for Educare students: If disadvantaged children enter Educare before their first birthday, they usually are, by the first day of kindergarten, essentially caught up with the national average on tests of basic knowledge and language comprehension, as well as on measures of noncognitive factors like attachment, initiative, and self - control.

«As their science curiosity goes up, the polarizing effects of higher science comprehension dissipate, and people move the same direction on contentious policies like climate change and fracking,» Kahan said.

This study investigates the relationships of perceived plausibility and comprehension of multiple articles related to a social science topic (the PISA study) and effects of recipients» reading goal with multilevel models (items nested within recipients) on a trial - by - trial basis.

When utilised well, the effect of this type of technology on the comprehension of STEM related subjects is highly observable.

Specifically, he will work with the PI and core project staff to develop an analysis plan, direct the evaluation of the efficacy of the Core Knowledge Language Arts Listening and Learning Read Aloud Program, articulate the fully specified multi-level models used to estimate treatment impacts on child - level vocabulary, listening comprehension and domain knowledge outcomes, and guide the secondary analyses that examine whether the quality of read alouds mediate treatment effects on child outcomes and the baseline, child - level moderators of treatment effects.

When it comes to reading information that spans more than one screen, this can be attributed to the «disruptive effect» that scrolling has on reading comprehension.

Although children in the treatment group and family literacy group reported reading more books than the control group, there was no significant effect on reading comprehension and vocabulary.

A series of single - subject experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of presentational, translational, illustrative, instructional, and summarizing supports on the reading and listening comprehension of students with moderate intellectual...

Interventions have had stronger effects on math achievement than on reading comprehension.

She was associate director of the National Research and Development Center on English Language Learners (2005 — 2009) that examined the effect of instructional practices that enhance vocabulary and comprehension for middle school English language learners in content areas.

Results indicated that instruction in the reading strategy produced meaningful, lasting, and generalizable effects on students» story comprehension skills.

We find positive effects on reading comprehension among third and fourth graders, with effect sizes of.21 to.29 standard deviations, but no effects for first and second graders.

To document the transfer effects from elementary to middle school on ITBS reading comprehension and science achievement for Science IDEAS elementary school students.

The treatment group outscored the control group on reading comprehension, with an effect size of 0.11.

In such studies, it is important to recognize that the performance of Science IDEAS students on nationally - normed reading comprehension tests is, in itself, a significant transfer effect (i.e., students have no prior exposure to test content).

Prosody and reading comprehension appear to have a reciprocal effect on one another: weak prosody can lead to reduced comprehension due to incorrect phrasing or as a result of inappropriate expression.

Effect of phonological and morphological awareness on reading comprehension in Hebrew - speaking adolescents with reading disabilities.

Results indicated that: (1) individual differences in decoding ability have little effect on children's reading comprehension, and vice versa; (2) early language understanding predicts reading comprehension; (3) emerging knowledge about reading predicts subsequent decoding ability; (4) children's early interest in and involvement in literacy predicts gains in reading and (5) home problems had a negative prediction on reading.

The Effect of Explicit Teaching of Online Metacognitive Strategies on EFL Learners» L2 Reading Comprehension

Thinking aloud: effects on text comprehension by children with specific language impairment and their peers.

Motivation and Reading Comprehension 1 Running head: EFFECTS OF MOTIVATIONAL AND COGNITIVE VARIABLES Effects of Motivational and Cognitive Variables on Reading Comprehension

ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation: THE EFFECTS OF EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION OF EXPOSITORY TEXT STRUCTURE INCORPORATING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS ON THE COMPREHENSION OF THIRD - GRADE STUDENTS

Title of Dissertation: THE EFFECTS OF EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION OF EXPOSITORY TEXT STRUCTURE INCORPORATING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS ON THE COMPREHENSION OF THIRD - GRADE STUDENTS Lynn M. Newman, Doctor of

The effects of interest on reading comprehension of low - achieving students.

Research on the comparative effects of Reading Recovery in the areas of reading fluency, reading achievement, alphabetics, and reading comprehension is detailed in the USDE's What Works Clearinghouse report.

Transfer effects of a reading comprehension strategy on achievement and teacher judgments across grades 3 - 7.

The researchers will follow children from kindergarten entry to second grade and will investigate the effects of the reading curriculum on their vocabulary skills, listening comprehension, domain knowledge, and ultimately reading comprehension at the end of second grade.

It found that the intervention had a positive effect on both student math and reading comprehension.

An analysis of covariance on students» spring comprehension scores across grades 2 - 6, with fall scores used as the covariate, revealed a significant effect for the school: F (2,336) = 10.18, p <.001; a significant effect for year in study (Year 1 or Year 2): F (1,336) = 4.18, p =.04; and a significant school by year - in - study interaction: F (2,336) = 10.30, p <.001.

A study of 2,140 6th graders using Thinking Reader, a software program designed to improve reading comprehension by asking students computer - adaptive questions about young adult novels, found no effects on reading comprehension (Drummond et al., 2011).

The most obvious outcome we can hope for is that students will end up knowing more about their social and natural world from reading informational texts — and that could have a positive effect on their reading comprehension.

And even when the small screen did not have any negative effect on reading comprehension, the participants in this study still preferred a larger screen.

She has also presented to people of many nationalities and most recently presented her findings from the study, The effects of experiences with animals on the reading comprehension skills of students in the seventh grade, at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Now I don't wan na get off on a rant here, but the Mass Effect series came within groping distance of being the most gripping, emotionally powerful story in the history of gaming, only to fail so badly at the last moment that it defies comprehension.

Why Victor thinks hiatuses cast any doubt on the effect of CO2 to warming is beyond comprehension, other than he is attempting to deflect.

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Probably the most extensive evaluation of program effects on very young children was undertaken in Canada's Self - Sufficiency Project (SSP), the voluntary earnings supplement program that had large initial effects on full - time employment and income.5 Despite concerns that increases in full - time work would reduce parents» time with their young children, no effects on children were found either at the 36 - month follow - up point, when a test of language comprehension was administered to the children who would then have been three to five years of age, or at the 54 - month follow - up point, when parents were asked about their children's school performance.