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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Not Reading"”.
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Comprehensive Self-Selected Reading and Student Engagement With the Novel: A Program Evaluation
<p>Not reading (Krashen, 2009) is a phenomenon widely noted in students assigned to read as a part of school curriculum. A solution to the many criticisms and deficits cited in the literature surrounding the practice of not reading may lie in the CSSR (Comprehensive Self-Selected Reading) program …
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A Study of the Recreational Book Reading Habits of Selected Fifth-Grade Children
… two groups in terms of sex, attitude toward reading, and reading achievement. A selected number of these pupils were interviewed to determine their expressed motivations for reading or for not reading books for recreation.
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Relationships between reading habits and the development of study skills
… of this study was to determine whether or not reading habits have an effect on the development of study habits in an undergraduate population (n=100). Students reported several aspects of both reading and study skills being elevated along with higher rates of reading habits. Correlational …
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Adult consumers' understanding and use of information on food labels : a study among consumers living in the Potchefstroom and Klerksdorp region
… the font size of the print, whereas reasons for not reading food labels were related to product attributes, demographic characteristics and situational factors. Conclusions: Findings indicate that the food choices of the majority of respondents who read food labels are influenced by the …
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Book of Empire: The Political Bible of U.S. Literary Modernism
… is often suggested by scholars, modernism is not a moment of secularization and declining faith and that the Bible is actually a resource for mounting a radical critique of empire, nation-building, and racial oppression that defies conservative notions supporting those undertakings. For Willa …
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Excellent, Approachable, Local: Using an experience-driven, embodied methodology to explore communities of practice within a third place
… stressful, but unless we are willing to do so, nothing will ever change. Using a year-long ethnographic case study of Aromas Coffeehouse as the guiding project, in this thesis I question two assumptions of modern ethnographic research. First, I question why researchers are so much more …
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Factors That Foster or Hinder Student Reading Motivation in a Suburban Primary School
Readingtakes a large amount of effort, but if students are without the motivation to read, they will put little effort into the task of reading (Guthrie, Perencevich, Tonks, and Wigfield, 2004). According to the report of the International Student Assessment (PISA) results of the sixty-four …
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Instrumental Music Participation and the Differences in Academic Performances for Students in Poverty
… academic achievement scores in both math and reading. There was greater growth in the area of math. Poverty FRL, based upon the criteria of students living in poverty, was correlated with lower math scores, but not reading scores. Finally the data indicated no significance when examining both …
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Should Modality Be a Consideration in the Selection of an Approach to Beginning Reading?
… an effort to select an approach to first-grade reading for each child in accordance with his modality strength as determined by an informal modality test. In their kindergarten year, 60 middle-class children with at least average intelligence were given three readiness tests, the Peabody Picture …
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The influence of reading nationally circulated scholarly educational literature as manifested in the curricular leadership performance of middle school principals
… and to what extent middle school principals are reading nationally circulated scholarly educational literature that calls for curriculum change. A second purpose of the study was to investigate how that reading influenced their leadership in curriculum decisions. By comparing the responses of …
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Reading Kiswahili Language at Lower Standards in Public Primary Schools in Kinondoni, Tanzania: Challenges and Strategies
… in the process of teaching and learning of reading Kiswahili language to standard I and II pupils in public primary schools. This study was a case study, employed qualitative and quantitative approaches. The study was conducted within 10 out of 34 wards and 10 out of 140 public primary …
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The Effects of Reading & Reading Strategy Training on Lower Proficiency Level Second Language Learning
… of this study was to investigate what effect reading in a second language has on the knowledge and language performance of young adult missionaries studying to learn a foreign language. It was hypothesized that reading would improve vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension, and it was …
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Addressing Scientific Literacy Through Content Area Reading And Proces
… of their students through teaching content reading strategies and student inquiry skills. Knowledge of the successful integration of content reading and inquiry skills by experienced classroom teachers would be useful to many educators as they plan instruction to achieve challenging state …
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Indicators of Typology in the Narrative of Elijah: An Investigation into the Predictive Nature of Biblical Theology
… the study of typology in Scriptures have not changed during this period, new trends have emerged. After this initial methodological positioning, this study proceeds in the second part (Chapters 3–5) with a text-empirical analysis of Elijah cycle (1 Kgs 17–19, 21; 2 Kgs 1–2:14), that takes …
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William Blake's American legacy: transcendentalism and visionary poetics in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman
… can be dated from Ralph Waldo Emerson's early reading of Songs of Innocence and Experience in 1842. Chapter one will show that the New England Transcendentalists - primarily Emerson, but also Elizabeth Peabody and readers of the transcendentalis publication The Harbinger - were reading Blake's …
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The Development and Validation of a Vocational Interest Survey Instrument With Audio-Visual Format
… interest surveys rely exclusively on printed reading materials to assess youngsters' vocational interest . The use of printed reading materials alone may not best serve the youngsters who are unable to read or who learn best through a different kind of learning structure . There needs to be a …