Abstract In this paper, we examine the relationship between reading programs and the reading skills/academic outcomes of students in rural China. We find that students exhibited poor reading outcomes in the absence of any treatment. However, increased access to independent reading materials coupled with effective teacher training was associated with higher scores on reading scales and standardi...

Metacognitive monitoring affects regulation of study, and this affects overall learning. The authors created differences in monitoring accuracy by instructing participants to generate a list of 5 keywords that captured the essence of each text. Accuracy was greater for a group that wrote keywords after a delay (delayed-keyword group) than for a group that wrote keywords immediately after readin...

(2014) Simulated hyperopic anisometropia and reading, visual information processing , and reading-related eye movement performance in children. Notice: Changes introduced as a result of publishing processes such as copy-editing and formatting may not be reflected in this document. For a definitive version of this work, please refer to the published source: ABSTRACT Purpose: This study investiga...

The digital age requires relevant skills and strategies in online academic reading. Appropriate reading media are needed lack of interactive teaching, learning strategies, has caused students' low critical creative thinking an course. Inquiry complexity-based with tools can solve these problems. This study aims to develop Complexity Reading Strategy (ICRS) test its feasibility effectiveness enh...

Procrastinationhasbeenreportedasaprevalentphenomenoninthegeneralpopulation,affecting anumberofadults.Procrastinationinacademiamayhaveparticularlyseriouseffectsforstudents intertiaryeducation,whoseacademiclivesarecharacterisedbyfrequentdeadlines.Indeed,ithas beenshownthatuniversitystudentswhoratedhighonprocrastinationreceivedlowgrades(Tice &...

OBJECTIVE Approximately 4.4 million (7.8%) children in the United States have been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and 56% of affected children take prescription medications to treat the disorder. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is strongly linked with low academic achievement, but the association between medication use and academic achievement in school settin...

Different types of reading strategies pose challenges to instructors and learners in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. This study aimed at identifying and comparing reading strategies used by instructors and students in dealing with literal comprehension, reorganization, and inferential comprehension questions. The participants werefive EFL instructors and 27 students from the En...

This article identifies two causes of the absence of methodology for teaching Japanese reading to children from overseas: 1. The absence of a theoretical foundation for the principle of acquisition of academic Japanese; 2. The absence of content-based reading instruction − that is, instruction for learning school subjects. This article then proposes the Endogenous Development Model as a theoret...