The Relationship Between Professed Student Reading Interest and Student Choice of Reading Topics

<p>One hundred seventh- and eighth-grade students in an Inner-city Georgia school served as subjects for surveys of reading interests. The two surveys were designed to gather information from students for the book topics they professed to want to read, and the actual reported topics they read. Trends of Interest by subject and sex were generated. The survey revealed reading Interests of students according to gender. Further, teacher-assigned reading and student reading interests varied to such a substantial degree that a strong case may be made for changing assigned reading to make it more in line with student interest.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Specialist in Education

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Teacher Education

Year

1991

Author dc:creator

• Smith, Mary E.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. James M. Brewbaker
• Dr. Bob G. Henderson
• Dr. Anita Whitman

• Georgia
• Reading Interests
• Gender
• Assigned Reading
• Seventh-Grade
• Eigth-Grade
• Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
• Language and Literacy Education
• Secondary Education

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/theses_dissertations/725

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:csuepress.columbusstate.edu:theses_dissertations-1708