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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"literacy skill"”.
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Teachers' Perceptions of Educational Research: A Self-Efficacy Perspective
… and self-efficacy in the context of information literacy. Self-efficacy, as measured by confidence ratings, was investigated through two contexts: (a) finding information (general vs. research information), and (b) specific steps in the information literacy skill set. The resulting data were …
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Thinking inside the boxes: the importance of comics and graphic novels in visual arts education
… been blamed for juvenile delinquency and poor literacy skill acquisition (Wertham, 1954; McCloud, 1993, 2000). Yet recently educators have taken comics into the classroom instead of to the incinerator. Comics are now considered by educators to be useful for a variety of reasons (Jacobs, 2007). …
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Design of a mobile support and content authoring tool to support deaf adults training in computer literacy skills
… encounter at the task of learning computer literacy skills. Deaf adults who communicate using South African Sign Language (SASL) come from poor socio-economic backgrounds are not familiar with the written form of English. They rely on interpreters and Deaf teachers to translate written text …
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The Effects of Incorporating Interactive Questioning During Shared Electronic Book Reading on Preschoolers' Comprehension
… evaluated the child participants' comprehension skills and the parent-child dyad's interactive behaviors during shared electronic book reading. Child participants' story understanding was measured by comprehension questions and elicited story retellings and tracked through baseline, intervention, …
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Examining the development of disciplinary literacy practices within a junior high exploratory professional learning project
Disciplinary Literacy, the ability to read, write, and think in ways characteristic of different academic disciplines, is a critical skill for students. Content area teachers, such as those in science, social studies, and math, often struggle with teaching these literacy skills, as their expertise …
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Meta-Analysis of Reading Interventions for Students with Learning and Emotional Disabilities
Developing effective literacy skill has become an increasingly critical skill in today's information age. Students with emotional/behavioral disorders (E/BD) routinely lack these skills and are not being taught how to read effectively. The field of special education needs more comprehensive and …
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A comparison of literacy achievement in full-day, alternate-day, and half-day kindergarten
… study was to examine the pre and post scores of literacy surveys to determine if there is a differential improvement in the literacy achievement of kindergarten students who attend one of three kindergarten programs: full-day, alternate-day, and half-day. The sample of this study consisted of …
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Ambiguity resolution of adults with low literacy
… college-aged readers with poorer comprehension skills and older adults take longer to suppress the inappropriate features to isolate the intended meaning. However, there has been no investigation as to whether the activation of such contextually inappropriate features influence language …
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Interactive storybooks with a robot companion
The strong correlation between children's early literacy skill and later academic (and economic) success has motivated much research into how children learn to read and what interventions aid the learning process. Research shows that children's reading ability improves through shared reading …
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The Capacity of a Southern University to Promote and Support Health Literacy Among College Students: A Case Study Approach
… dimensions of health and wellness, or the IOM skill set for health literacy. After all interviews were conducted, transcripts were reviewed and coding was conducted to determine the connection between the selected programs, services, and supports, and the IOM health literacy skill set and the …
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Why Teach (young) People how to Cook? A critical analysis of education and policy in transition
… for what it defines as Food and Cooking Skills Education (FCSE). The research applied a dual focus on FCSE: as food policy and as pedagogy. A multi-method methodology was adopted, using a food systems conceptual approach, in order to capture the depth, range and breadth of possible …
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Community knowledge sharing : an Internet application to support communications across literacy levels
… in rural communities have low levels of literacy, CKS implements a multi-literate design in which the system can be customized based on the abilities and preferences of the user. Three research areas are explored. The primary research area is to understand whether multi-literate …
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Adolescent Literacy: The Case for Using Data-Based Individualization to Improve Student Outcomes
Background: Literacy is a skill necessary for various aspects of life from work to entertainment. Over the last two decades, among school aged students, the nation’s literacy proficiency rates have remained low and stagnant. Federal and state lawmakers have sought to ameliorate the literacy issue …
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The effectiveness of the virtual reading gym online intervention for grade three to six learners with reading difficulties
… African learners are not achieving the expected literacy outcomes of their grades. Compounding the literacy crisis is the paucity of South African research related to information and communication technology (ICT)-based reading intervention, which may have potential for population-based service …
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Motivation and Reading Achievement: Understanding the Needs and Motivation Processes of Adult Literacy Learners
Adult struggling readers are understudied and most evidence-based remedial approaches target youth. This thesis examined relationships among motivation constructs across typical and struggling adult readers. Age was also investigated as a moderator in these relationships. Participants included 198 …