...Can Supplemented Basal Readers Be Successful? Researchers have highly debated the effectiveness of basal reading programs for decades. Apple (as cited in Bauman & Heubach, 1996) claimed that basal reading programs educationally deskill teachers by removing their need to deliberate, plan, and design curriculum. Opponents to basal programs believe that commercially designed reading programs relinquish a teacher’s responsibility for planning and teaching. Many supporters of basal reading programs state that basal readers provide a good base of instructional materials. This base of materials should then supplement by teachers to meet the needs of their students. Dewitz and Jones (2013) specify that teachers must know when to delete, augment,...
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...Reading Recovery Reading Recovery is a reading intervention program developed by Dr. Marie M. Clay of New Zealand. Unlike most reading intervention programs, Reading Recovery is a non-profit, royalty free company that is run out of universities in the United States. Unlike its scripted counterparts such as WRS mentioned above, the Reading Recovery system was designed to be used one to one as a way to meet a student’s individual needs. Since this is not a scripted program and is instead intended to be designed for each student, the teacher is left to decide, after initial testing, what instruction the student most needs, the teacher then chooses among a variety of categories including phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension,...
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...Interview with a Nursing Information Expert: Guidelines and Grading Rubric Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to * Communicate your understanding of the importance of quality information in everyday nursing practice; * Discuss the roles and responsibilities of a Nursing Information Expert; and * Articulate how the professional nurse uses information or data in everyday practice to improve outcomes. Course Outcomes This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes. CO #1: Describe patient-care technologies as appropriate to address the needs of a diverse patient population. (PO #1) CO #4: Investigate safeguards and decision-making support tools embedded in patient care technologies and information systems to support a safe practice environment for both patients and healthcare workers. (PO #4) CO #8: Discuss the value of best evidence as a driving force to institute change in delivery of nursing care. (PO #8) Points This assignment is worth a total of 250 points. Due Date This assignment, Interview with a Nursing Information Expert, is due at the end of Week 6. Submit your completed Interview, using the Interview Form, to the basket in the Dropbox by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. mountain time. Post questions to the weekly Q & A Forum. Contact your instructor if you need additional assistance. See the Course Policies regarding late assignments. Failure to submit your paper to the Dropbox on time will result in a deduction of points. ...
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...PSYCH 100-B2 Reading and writing disorders: Research-based assessment and intervention By Layne Neel, Ashton Johnson, and Jeffrey D. Shahidullah APA.ORG-From Science to Practice | October 2011 Reading and writing disorders: a research-based assessment intervention by Layne Neel, Ashton Johnson and Jeffrey D. Shahidullah that examines different learning and writing disabilities and their IQ achievement criteria uses by APA to access them. Learning disabilities, or learning disorders, are an umbrella term for a wide variety of learning problems. A learning disability is not a problem with intelligence or motivation. Kids with learning disabilities aren’t lazy or dumb. In fact, most are just as smart as everyone else. Their brains are simply wired differently. This difference affects how they receive and process information. Simply put, children and adults with learning disabilities see, hear, and understand things differently. This can lead to trouble with learning new information and skills, and putting them to use. The most common types of learning disabilities involve problems with reading, writing, math, reasoning, listening, and speaking. According to the researcher Layne, Johnson and Jeffery; on half of all special education services ‘children are under the specific classification learning disability category which imply that in fact reading disorders affect four percent of school-age children and constitute about ninety percent of student with learning...
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...Research the status of the merged company at the time of your reading of this case. What happened in the industry since the merger, and how is the company faring? (Financial report of Alcatel-Lucent : http://investing.businessweek.com) Cross-cultural misunderstanding and problems took place when American CEO Patricia Russo and French board member Serge Tchuruk were present at Alcatel Lucent. After their departure the organization took appropriate actions by placing French chairman Philippe Camus and Ben Verwaayen in position as the new heads. Philippe Camus is a French who lives in America so he was familiar with both the American and French culture. Ben Verwaayen, being a Dutch has no effect on the cultural as he had a neutral nationality in the company, but he was still closely familiar with cross-cultural issues. Most importantly, both executives were comfortable with working with each other and had no issues on personal level. Since then Alcatel-Lucent has impressively reported in 2009 for 15.2 billion Euros of revenue. The company is currently operating in more than 130 countries worldwide with both executives still in the same position. Moreover, Alcatel-Lucent was able to become worldwide leader in fixed broadband access market (2008), named ‘Strong Performer’ for Interaction-Centric Customer Service Solutions by Genesys (2008), won IEC InfoVision Award (2008), and ranked No.2 in Global Telecommunications Services Market (2008) (Alcatel-Lucent web-site, 2011 ...
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...substantiated with additional background information, evidence, or research. Share an insight from having read your colleagues' postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives. Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library. Validate an idea with your own experience and additional research. Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings. Expand on your colleagues' postings by providing additional insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence. Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence, or research. Share an insight from having read your colleagues' postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives. Offer and support an alternative perspective using readings from the classroom or from your own research in the Walden Library. Validate an idea with your own experience and additional research. Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings. Expand on your colleagues' postings by providing additional insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence. Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence, or research. Share an insight from having read your colleagues' postings...
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...Education and Their Implications April, May, June 2012 Volume: 3 Issue: 2 Article: 04 ISSN 1309-6249 READING ATTITUDES OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: AN ANALYSIS FROM DIFFERENT VARIABLES Gökhan BAŞ Selçuk University Educational Sciences Institute, Curriculum and Instruction Department Meram, Konya, TURKEY ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to determine the reading attitudes of high school ninth and twelfth grade students based on some variables. The researcher used ‘general survey method’ in the study. Totally 426 students from six public high schools, chosen according to random sampling method participated in the research. In order to answer the research questions in the study, “the Attitude Scale Towards Reading” was used. In accordance with the purpose of the study, percentage, mean, standard deviation, independent samples t-test, ANOVA and Tukey-HSD tests were employed in the study. For the statistical analyses SPSS 17.0 was used. According to findings of the study, it was seen that high school students had moderate level of reading attitudes. It was also understood in the study that high school students’ reading attitudes differed significantly according to gender, grade level, school type, father’s and mother’s educational level and the financial income of the family variables. Key Words: Reading, attitude, high school, gender, grade, education level, income. INTRODUCTION Reading plays a very important role in our lives. It is so much a part of everyday living that one can hardly...
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...what a research is. Enumerate examples and techniques and methods on conducting research. Give examples of topics which could be used in writing research. Research is a process of steps used to collect and analyze information to increase our understanding of a topic or issue". It consists of three steps: Pose a question, collect data to answer the question, and present an answer to the question. Research and experimental development is formal work undertaken systematically to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humanity, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new. It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories. A research project may also be an expansion on past work in the field. To test the validity of instruments, procedures, or experiments, research may replicate elements of prior projects, or the project as a whole. The primary purposes of basic research (as opposed to applied research) are documentation, discovery, interpretation, or the research and development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge. Methods for conducting a research: The goal of the research process is to produce new knowledge or deepen understanding of a topic or issue. This process takes three main forms (although, as previously discussed, the boundaries between them may be obscure): * Exploratory research, which...
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...Research Proposal B. Anderson EDU 626 October 22, 2012 Instructor Lafferty Abstract The following is a research proposal addressing the importance of encouraging children to read for pleasure. The proposal explains the importance of such research within the introduction and then poses the research questions that will act as a guide for the researcher. It goes on to discuss literature found by the researcher that is relevant to this topic. The research will be a case study done using qualitative research. The methods and procedures will include participants from Rodman Elementary School along with a few instruments that will be needed for the collection of data. The analysis will seek to answer to research questions and the conclusion of this proposal will be a re=statement of the importance of the research. Introduction In a world consumed by technology it can be difficult to pull children’s attention away from devices such as television, computers, and video games and convince them to sit down with a good book. Yet, reading is the cornerstone of a successful education. Children who read often will develop a stronger vocabulary, have a greater depth of general knowledge, be more aware of cultural diversity, and even develop stronger social skills. The research proposed in this paper will explore the importance of reading for pleasure. It is probably fair to assume that the majority of people in our society will remember the alphabet song as...
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...HOW DOES A MUSIC PROGRAM AFFECT THE READING FLUENCY OF SECOND GRADE ESL STUDENTS? by Candace Rose Cooper A Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree in English as a Second Language Hamline University St. Paul, Minnesota April, 2011 Committee: Ann Mabbott-Primary Advisor Cynthia Lundgren-Secondary Advisor Kristin Weidlein-Peer Reader To my aunt, Mary Lou Merdan, Ph.D., who dedicated her career to reading literacy through the education of children and teachers. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter One: Introduction……………………………………………………………….1 Folk Songs………………………………………………………………………...1 Background of the Research………………………………………………………3 Benefits of Music Education……………………………………………………...4 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………...5 Chapter Two: Literature Review…………………………………………………………7 Music, Motivation, Language, and Reading Fluency……………………………..7 Music and Language…………………………………………………………..…..8 Music and Motivation……………………………………………………………10 Oral Language……………………………………………………………………15 Reading Fluency…………………………………………………………………17 Strategies for Enhancing Reading Fluency………………………………………21 Fluency and ELLs…………………………………………………...…………...24 Fluency Assessment……………………………………………………………...25 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………….29 Chapter Three: Methodology…………………………………………….……………...31 Participants and Research Design………………………………………………..31 Research Paradigm…………………………………………….………………....31 Setting………………………….………………………………………………...32 iii Participants………………………………………………………………………...
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... D., & Cervetti, G. N. (2013). The psychology and pedagogy of reading processes. In W. Reynolds, & G. Miller, (Eds.), Educational Psychology, V.VII, of Handbook of Psychology (2nd Ed) (pp. 507-554). New York: John Wiley & Sons. Chapter 12 The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading Processes P. David Pearson and Gina Cervetti As we approach the monumental task of living up to the standard imposed by our predecessor, the late Michael Pressley, in writing the reading chapter for this, the seventh volume in the series of Handbooks of Psychology, we are both privileged and humbled by the opportunity of continuing the legacy of providing a comprehensive account of new theoretical and empirical contributions to reading research. Respectful of the cross-age approach that Pressley took in the last volume (account for progress of beginning readers, adolescent and adult readers— and along the way highlight some pedagogical processes that are salient at all levels, such as word recognition, vocabulary, and comprehension), we took a different approach. We decided to focus on reading as a fundamentally cognitive process that can be influenced by contextual forces at many levels, most notably for education, schools, and policy environments. Thus we deal with the fundamental psychological aspects of reading—word level processes (including subword processes such as phonological awareness and decoding, word reading, and vocabulary, with all of its entailments), and text-level...
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...skills: speaking, listening, writing and reading. The latter is extremely important in language learning since written words enable the language learner to have access to all kinds of information and knowledge. In order to better understand what an EFL learner reads, s/he has to make use of a number of reading strategies namely: prediction, Prior Knowledge, summarizing, skimming, scanning. Most of second year literary-stream students at “Al akhawain Kird” Secondary school in El-Oued in Algeria fail in comprehending what they read in the classroom setting and this may be directly linked to their lack of awareness of using the appropriate reading...
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...achievement of students, reading is the most important tool. There are many reading strategies, which play a vital role in the development of reading skills of students at primary level. The five key reading strategies include: 1. Using background knowledge 2. Predicting 3. Self monitoring and self correcting 4. Identifying main ideas and summarizing 5. Making inferences and questioning Statement of the Problem The purpose of this study is to determine such reading strategies which assist the development of reading skills of students at primary level. This study will take place with fourth grade students at primary schools of Pakistan. Purpose of the Study This research aims to determine which reading strategies are most effective in the development of reading abilities of students, and if the various reading strategies which students should master are in the knowledge of the English teachers of primary schools. Another purpose of this study is to investigate whether these reading strategies are clearly being taught to the students by their teachers. This research is being conducted with the purpose to outline several strategies for developing reading skills, to explore the importance of good reading habits and to investigate the strategies that teachers may use in order to improve reading skills in the class room. Research Questions This research aims to answer the following questions: 1. Do strong reading skills enhance the overall...
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...The Relationship Between Motivation and Reading Comprehension Introduction to Area of Interest: Reading comprehension is a complex process affected by three major variables (Gill, 2008): the reader, the text and the situation. When the teacher is working with these variables, it is important that a comprehension strategy be modeled by the teacher and that the student be able to see the execution of that strategy (Dwyer, 2010). Children need time to practice the strategy so that they can become independent learners guided by the strategy even when the teacher is not present. This helps them be able to form a mental model of understanding. Woolley (2010) shares that most children are capable of constructing the mental model of story events needed to comprehend what they have read. The three phases of reading (before reading, during reading and after reading) are all important to building comprehension. Thorkildsen, Nolen, and Fournier, J. (1994) asked children to choose the motivational practice that worked best for them. With significance substantially above chance, students selected the fairest practice to be teachers encouraging a task focus. How much effect does the proper administration of task focused motivation have on student reading comprehension ability? Theory/Theories or Conceptual Framework(s) Related to the Area of Inquiry: This study is influenced by the schema, transactional and constructivist theories described by Gill (2008). The schema theory explains...
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...TEST-TAKING STRATEGIES IN THE KPG READING TEST: INSTRUMENT CONSTRUCTION & INVESTIGATION RESULTS Maria Stathopoulou and Doriana Nikaki National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Abstract: This paper reports on results of one aspect of a larger research project carried out at the Research Centre in English Language Teaching, Testing and Assessment (RCEL), University of Athens. The overall aim of the project is to investigate the test-taking strategies used by Greek users of English when performing the activities of the Greek State Language Exams, known as Kratiko Pistopiitiko Glossomathias (KPG) and whether these can be successfully taught. The aim of this paper is twofold. It firstly aims at discussing findings regarding the testtaking strategies candidates claim to use when responding to the KPG reading tasks and, secondly, at presenting the research instrument used for such an investigation. The research instrument, which is a closedresponse questionnaire, has been designed at the RCEL and administered to candidates who sat for the KPG examination at the November 2008 administration. The findings, which actually demystify the way candidates deal with the reading activities, may prove useful not only for teachers who prepare students for the KPG exam and for the actual candidates but also for syllabus and materials designers. 1. Background to the study One of the projects presently being carried out at the Research Centre in English Language Teaching, Testing and...
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