Prediction of Elementary Student Reading Achievement From Specific Home Environment Variables

The purpose of this study was twofold: to determine the relationship between reading achievement and certain social and literary variables of the home environment and to determine what combination of these variables would most accurately predict reading achievement. A parent survey was distributed to all students in Grades 1 through 6 of one school. All data were available for 492 students. A correlation matrix was generated by using the Pearson product-moment formula. A stepwise multiple regression analysis computed the predictors of reading achievement. The educational level of the father was both highly significant to and the greatest predictor of reading achievement. The strongest relationships with, and predictors of, reading achievement, from the literary variables, were reading to the child before school entry and the variety of printed materials in the home.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Education in Elementary Education

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Childhood Education and Family Studies

Year

1990

Author dc:creator

• Anglum, Barbara S.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Darrell Roubinek

• Elementary Education and Teaching

Statement dc:rights

• © Barbara S Anglum

Repository record dc:identifier

https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/450

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:bearworks.missouristate.edu:theses-1451