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Showing 1 to 20 of 683 for “"Fluency"”.
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Development of Reading Fluency During an Extensive Reading Course Incorporating Reading Fluency Tasks
… typically focused on accuracy at the expense of fluency. However, reading rate and fluency are important components of reading that are currently being neglected. A review of the literature reveals growing interest in investigating the effectiveness of reading rate and fluency enhancement …
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The impact of oral fluency and silent fluency on the comprehension of fourth graders
… to discover if a connection exists between oral fluency and silent fluency. Comprehension was used as the consistent measurement instrument for the study. Understanding how oral fluency transitions to silent fluency helps educators understand how to assist students with this process. Most reading …
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Building Fluency of Sight Words
Words surround us. Many words, classified as high frequency words, make up a large percentage of the text we encounter on a daily basis. Educators understand the importance of recognition, memorization, and comprehension of these high frequency words as it contributes to improved reading ability in …
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Leveraging learning through technological fluency
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996.
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The Relationship between Reading Fluency, Writing Fluency, and Reading Comprehension in Suburban Third-Grade Students
The topic of reading fluency is of great importance in education today. Research has shown a significant positive relationship between reading fluency and reading comprehension. However, little is known about writing fluency and its connection with reading comprehension. The purpose of this study …
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Fluency and controlled-operant training methods
… respect to behavioral outcomes correlated with fluency. Subjects were trained to translate binary numbers into decimal numbers. Responses were made orally with the use of voice recognition software. One training method presented 50 stimuli on a computer monitor at a time (No ITIs). The other two …
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Effects of celeration rate on behavioral fluency
… that the speed with which learners achieve fluency (i.e., celeration) also is important. The purpose of the present experiments was to test those propositions. Subjects read binary numbers on a computer screen, and spoke the decimal equivalent of those numbers into voice-recognition …
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Readers Theater: A Key to Fluency Development
… presents a multicase study that looked at the fluency development of three fourth grade readers of varying reading abilities. The participants were chosen based on two scores, their words correct per minute (WCPM) score and their Multidimensional Fluency Scale score (MFS). The three students …
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Modeling Elementary Aged Students' Fluency Growth in Written Expression: Predicting Fluency Growth for Girls and Boys in General Education
… assessments of elementary-aged students' writing fluency has been lacking compared to other academic areas (i.e., reading). Performance feedback interventions targeting writing fluency are gaining empirical support (Eckert et al., 2006); however, growth trajectories for elementary-aged students' …
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How critical is fluency for the struggling reader?
… research study is to look at the importance of fluency to the struggling reader. The research sets out to look for answers to the following questions: How critical is fluency for the struggling reader? What effect does fluency have on the reading experience? What strategies work to improve …
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Effect of Journal Writing on Students' Writing Fluency
… writing and its potential effects on writing fluency among high school students. It was hypothesized that there would be a significant gain in fluency for students who wrote daily in a journal. For the purposes of this study, fluency was defined as the total number of words in a composition. …
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The metacognitive cue of fluency on taste perception
… cognitive operations, namely processing fluency, affects a broad range of judgments such as product evaluations. For example, an increase in fluency through repeated exposure to product packages enhances attitude toward the brand (Janiszewski 1993). This thesis examined the effect of …
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Fostering fluency with basic addition and subtraction facts
The present study involved investigating knowledge and use of the addition-subtraction complement principle (if a + b = c, then c – b = a or c – a = b) by pupils in grades kindergarten to 3. Eighty-one children from three public schools serving a mid-western community participated in the study. …
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Examining fluency practices: an interactional study of stuttering
… in collaborative effort and learning. Also, fluency breakdowns were not observed to negatively impact the production and use of target card labels. The AWS pairs were observed to establish, stabilize and simplify initiating referencing expressions in a similar manner to pairs not managing …
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The Dynamic Cognitive Processes of Second Language Reading Fluency
Second language (L2) reading fluency has not received sufficient attention in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) and applied linguistics, especially regarding the types of treatments that promote reading fluency (Grabe, 2009). Hence, this study was a longitudinal, quasi-experimental …
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Phonetic aspects of fluency in read and spontaneous speech
… on students' performance of these aspects of fluency. We analyzed two sets of recordings by 8 speakers, one was recorded when participants were in their first year of studies, another a couple of years later. We analyzedrecordings from Prague Phonetic and LINDSEI corpora, where we counted the …
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A Comparison of Two Measures of Oral Reading Fluency
Reading fluency is an important part of the process of learning to read. It is commonly assessed by the use of Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) techniques; however, a new assessment method emerged in the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement- Third Edition (WJ-III). Only one previous study had …
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Adult ESL Oral Reading Fluency and Silent Reading Comprehension
… program revealed that their oral reading fluency had a significant, low-to-moderate correlation with scores on a measure of silent reading comprehension. The correlation was slightly stronger for measures of accuracy than speed, and strongest for miscue ratio. The correlation increased as …
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Differentiated Phonics Lessons Effect on Fluency and School Culture
… of differentiated phonics lessons on reading fluency and examines the effect of these lessons on student and teacher perceptions of school culture. The study examines quantitative data on the effectiveness of the skill lessons. The qualitative findings examine the impact of the lessons on the …
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The Effect of Oral Reading Fluency on Analysis Skills
<p>The effect oral reading fluency has on comprehension is still being ascertained. This project examines the role of fluency and the effect it has on analysis skills. The purpose of this study is to show that fluency effects overall reading comprehension. Literature supports the view that fluent …
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