Effectiveness of the QAR Reading Strategy on Science Reading

<p>The Questions-Answer Relationship (QAR) is a reading strategy that guides student comprehension by allowing the student to demonstrate their ability to determine importance, make inferences, and monitor comprehension through questions. The study was conducted on high school students in physical science to determine if the implementation of the QAR would improve content area literacy knowledge and confidence from pre-test and post-test data. Pedagogies included modeling, collaboration, independent work, guided practice, direct instruction, and inquiry laboratories. Through the implementation of the QAR method, the researcher found that students that learned new reading strategies gained confidence and were more engaged in the content reading. Though the treatment group had more significant gains on specific questions, there were significant improvements on specific questions in regards to both groups, although no significance was found in total scores.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Biology

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Biology

Year

2016

Author dc:creator

• Broser, Courtney Anne

Contributors dc:contributor

• Janice Greene

• question-answer relationship
• reading strategy
• reading comprehension
• science
• reading
• teaching
• science classroom
• teaching science
• science literacy
• Biology

Statement dc:rights

• © Courtney Anne Broser

Repository record dc:identifier

https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/6

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:bearworks.missouristate.edu:theses-1005