Students' Concepts of Reading and Their Achievement in Reading Comprehension

A major purpose of this study was to determine if a difference, independent of intelligence, exists between the reading comprehension of elementary school students who have more adequate concepts of reading and students who have less adequate concepts of reading. The achievement of this purpose was guided by the following research questions: (1) Do second grade students who have more adequate concepts of reading have higher comprehension achievement, as measured by reading comprehension subtest scores, than second grade students with similar IQs who have less adequate concepts of reading? (2) Do fifth grade students who have more adequate concepts of reading have higher comprehension achievement, as measured by reading comprehension subtest scores, than fifth grade students with similar IQs who have less adequate concepts of reading? (3) Is there a relationship between the degree of adequacy of students concepts of reading and grade level?

Name thesis:degree_name

Educat.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

1981

Author dc:creator

• Worley, Carolyn Juergensmeyer

• Education, Elementary

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8127735

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/66067