Balancing Reading Motivation: A Comparative Case Study of High School Students and Their Teachers

The purpose of this study is to understand how teachers successfully balance instruction in a high stakes tested classroom environment to promote reading motivation.. To analyze, the researcher focused on two tenth grade English classroom, two tenth grade English teachers, and eight tenth grade students who are identified as proficient readers. One teacher has 19 years of teaching experience with only one of those years being a high school English teacher. The other teacher has 12 years of teaching experience of teaching high school, and this is her eighth year teaching 10th grade.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D. in Education

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Year dc:date.available

2019

Author dc:creator

• Garth, Pasteia

Contributors dc:contributor

• Rosemary Oliphant-Ingham
• Ellen J. Foster
• Neal Hutchens

• High Stakes Testing
• Reading Instruction
• Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1589

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-2588