Reading Attitudes Of Students Research Articles

The Relationship between Reading Attitude and Student Grade Point Average

Reading is crucial for individuals to achieve optimal functioning, as it facilitates the development of cognitive processes such as critical thinking and decision-making, which foster the ability to conceptualize and solve problems. This research study is significant to conduct because there is a dier need for a scholarly inquiry more focused on establishing the relationship between students’ attitudes toward reading and their academic performance while considering the influence of study skills across all levels of education. The main aim of the study was to examin the relation between the reading attitudes of students and their academic acheivment by gainning higher grades in the class. Thus, the main research question the study was; What is the relationship between reading attitude and students’ grade point average? The main research tool used in thse study was quantitative research method. The study was conducted in King Saud University for Health and Sciences (KSUHS) in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. Random sampling technique was used to select the sample. Sample size of the study was 146 students enrolled in first-year at KSUHS. The Pearson correlation value of E1, E2, E3, G1, E10, E13, E16, E21, G25, E1, E2, E22, E12, E7, E8, E14 lie between +1 and -1 which showed that variables have a significant relationship with each other. The hypothesis test values were (t=4.797, p<.01) which supported the hypothesis that a positive reading attitude contributes to higher grade point averages in the classroom due to which H1 was accepted. Correlation among the variables showed that grade point average is significantly correlated with Reading attitudes toward the English language.

Особенности подготовки учителей начальных классов к преподаванию литературного чтения по системе развивающего обучения

<p>The article considers peculiarities of preparation of bachelors, future teachers of primary school, to teaching literature according to the system of developing education. Reading attitudes of students were identified that interfere with the competent analysis of literary texts and the competent teaching of literature. This is the setting to read the “morality” of the work as a variant of the naive-realistic reader’s setting, the setting to find the only correct interpretation of the work, the absence of the set to read the author’s point of view, the low level of readiness for independent reflection on the motives and character of the book’s heroes. It was revealed that these attitudes complicate the understanding of epic texts to a greater extent, while the understanding of a lyrical work is at a higher level. The article discusses the forms of work within the framework of studying the methodology of primary literary education, primarily related to the formation of an attitude towards teaching literature as a subject of the aesthetic cycle.</p>

An Investigation of the Teaching Techniques, Assessment Strategies and Students’ Attitude towards Reading English and their Impact on Learners’ Performance in Pakistan

Effective teaching learning of English has got a prominent position in all the educational plans and policies of Pakistan. To ensure the effectiveness of English, efforts have been taken to enhance the teaching learning strategies, assessment techniques and reading attitude of students. Considering the importance of English, a survey, regarding the teaching techniques, assessment strategies and learners’ reading attitude and their impact on learners’ performance, has been conducted. The sample, comprising 535 students and 26 teachers, from target population delimited to Hyderabad, had been selected using random stratified technique of sampling. The findings clarified that earners’ reading attitude, assessment strategies and teaching techniques (independent variables) were strongly correlated to the performance of learners. However, the poor performance of students in English raised a question on assessment strategies, teaching techniques and learners’ attitude. The teachers and students mutually believed that conservative and unproductive teaching and assessment techniques employed by higher secondary school teachers failed to attract and motivate the students in order to enhance their performance. Even the teachers having vast teaching experience were incapable to use modern techniques and AV aids in their classroom teaching and assessment. They were incapable to develop and employ the modern standardized assessment tests. Rather than to focus on learners’ skill development, teachers focused on memorization and rote learning. Consequently, students’ interest toward classroom learning process did not flourish. Their attitude towards learning English was dismal. The research paper is rounded off with suggestions at the end.

Structural Cooperation Between Teachers, Public Librarians and Teacher Librarians


 
 
 According to the concept of ‘Public Library at School’, secondary schools and public libraries in the Netherlands are working on a structural cooperation. They collaborate at strategic, tactical and operating level to improve language skills, reading motivation and information literacy of students. This paper describes the experiences of the collaboration between several pre-vocational secondary schools and public libraries during the period of 2012 – 2015. Especially, the force of the collaboration of all the parties involved, is shown at all the components of the concept ‘Public library at school’. In all the example-schools it is shown that collaboration pays off. There are results on the management, employee and student level. The most important improvements are: students read more, students visit the (school) library more often, reading is more and more seen as ‘a normal thing to do’ and reading attitudes of students are improved.
 
 

Öğrencilerin Kitap Okuma Tutumları ile Kitap Okumanın DKAB Öğretim Programındaki Değerlere Etkisi Arasındaki İlişkinin İncelenmesi

Bu araştırma, öğrencilerin kitap okuma tutumları ile kitap okuma tutumlarının değerlere etkisine yönelik görüşleri arasındaki ilişkiyi tespit etmeye yöneliktir. Araştırmada öğrencilerin hem kitap okuma tutumlarının ne düzeyde olduğu incelenmiş hem de Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti’nde (KKTC) 4-12. sınıfları arasında okutulan Din Kültürü ve Ahlak Bilgisi Dersi (DKAB) öğretim programında öğretilmesi hedeflenen değerlerin, öğrencilerin kitap okuma tutumlarından ne düzeyde etkilendiği araştırılmıştır. Özellikle araştırmada kitap okuma tutumlarının öğrencilerin “adalet, duyarlılık, dayanışma, merhamet, nezaket, dürüstlük, sabır, sevgi, saygı, sorumluluk ve yardımlaşma” değerleri üzerinde bıraktığı etkiler ele alınmıştır. Bu değerlerin araştırmaya konu olmasının sebebi, KKTC DKAB programında öğretilmesi hedeflenen başlıca değerler olmalarıdır. Ayrıca araştırmada seçilen değerlerle Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Millî Eğitim Bakanlığının 2017 yılında belirlediği on kök değer (adâlet, dostluk, dürüstlük, öz denetim, sabır, saygı, sevgi, sorumluluk, vatanseverlik, yardımseverlik) karşılaştırıldığında, her iki grubun büyük oranda örtüştüğü görülmektedir. Araştırma 2020 yılında, KKTC’de bulunan 53 ortaokul ve liseden amaçlı örnekleme yöntemlerinden maksimum çeşitlilik yöntemiyle seçilen 11 okul ve bu okullarda okuyan 464 öğrenci ile yapılmıştır. Örneklem olarak seçilen okullar, KKTC’nin demografik yapısını yansıtacak şekilde her bölgeden ve her okul türünden seçilen resmi/özel okullardan oluşmaktadır. Nicel araştırma yöntemiyle yapılan araştırmada, öğrencilerin kitap okumaya ilişkin tutumlarını belirlemek amacıyla Sarar-Kuzu ve Doğan tarafından geliştirilen “Kitap Okuma Tutum Ölçeği” ile kitap okuma tutumunun değerlere etkisini ölçmek amacıyla araştırmacı tarafından geliştirilen “Kitap Okumanın Değerlere Etkisi Ölçeği” kullanılmıştır. Araştırma sonuçlarına göre; öğrencilerin %15,9’unun hiç kitap okumayan, %51,2’sinin az kitap okuyan özelliğinde olmalarına rağmen kitap okumanın “kişisel/toplumsal gelişimlerine katkı sağlama” faktöründe yüksek düzeyde, “ilgi/sevgi duyma” ile “önemli/değerli bulma” faktörlerinde orta düzeyde tutuma sahip oldukları tespit edilmiştir. Öğrencilerin kitap okumanın değerlere etkisine yönelik görüşleri ise yüksek düzeydedir. Kadın öğrencilerin kitap okuma tutumlarının erkek öğrencilere göre daha yüksek olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Öğrencilerin kitap okumanın değerlere etkisine yönelik görüşleri ise cinsiyet değişkenine göre farklılık göstermemektedir. Tüm öğrencilerin bu konudaki tutumları yüksek düzeydedir. Okul türü değişkenine göre veriler analiz edildiğinde kitap okumanın “kişisel/toplumsal gelişime katkısı” ve kitap okumayı “önemli/değerli bulma” faktörlerinde ve kitap okumanın değerlere etkisi ölçeğinde, Anadolu Lisesi, İlahiyat Koleji ve Kolej öğrencilerinin diğer öğrencilerden daha yüksek puan verdikleri tespit edilmiştir. Özellikle akademik başarı ile kitap okuma arasındaki pozitif ilişkinin bunun sebebi olduğu söylenebilir. Kitap okumaya “ilgi/sevgi duyma” faktöründe İlahiyat Koleji öğrencilerinin diğer okullardaki öğrencilerden daha yüksek bir tutuma sahip oldukları tespit edilmiştir. Okuldaki kitap okuma etkinliklerinin, yarışmaların ve kütüphaneye erişimin kolay olmasının İlahiyat Koleji öğrencilerinin kitaba ilgi ve sevgi duymalarında rol oynadığı söylenebilir. Ayrıca “sınıf seviyesi, yılda okudukları kitap sayısı, evinde çalışma odası/kitaplık/kitap köşesine sahip olma, okul kütüphanesinden kitap alma, okul dışında kütüphaneye gitme, ders kitabı dışında kitap satın alma ve dijital kitap/dergi okuma” şeklindeki diğer değişkenlerin de gruplar arasında farklılığa sebep olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Öğrencilerin kitap okuma tutumları ile kitap okumanın değerlere etkisine yönelik görüşleri arasında pozitif ve anlamlı bir ilişki olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Buna göre öğrencilerin kitap okuma tutumları arttıkça kitap okumanın değerleri etkilediğine yönelik görüşlerinin de arttığını söylemek mümkündür. Bu sonuçlara göre öğrencilerin yaşlarına uygun olarak seçilecek kitaplarla milli-manevi değerler kazandırılabilir. Okullarda düzenlenecek kitap okuma projeleri, yarışmalar ve etkinliklerle kitap okuma tutumları arttırılabilir ve milli-manevi değerlerin öğretilmesi sağlanabilir. Ayrıca kitap okumanın hangi değerleri, nasıl etkilediğini ortaya koymak için nitel araştırmalar yapılabilir.

Impact of Family and Student Factors on Student Attitude Towards Reading in Governmental and Non-Governmental High School of Debre Birhan City

Reading is the identification of the symbols and the association of appropriate meaning with them. It requires identification and comprehension. Comprehension skills help the learner to understand the meaning of words in isolation and in context. The purpose of this research is to determine the reading attitudes and Impact of Family and Students Factors on Students Attitude towards Reading of grade 9 th and 10 th high school students in Governmental and Non-Governmental High School of Debre Birhan City. Totally 247 students from two high schools is chosen according to random sampling method. In order to answer the research questions in the study, “the Attitude Scale towards Reading “was used. For the statistical analyses SPSS 20 was applied. In this study, 48.2 percent of high school students have negative reading attitude whereas the remaining 51.8 percent of the students have positive reading attitude with average reading attitude of the sample respondent 59. The chi-square test of independence indicates gender, place of coming, grade level, both mother and father education level and participation of the student in group discussion have statistically significant association with reading attitude of students (p-value <0.05). From the binary logistic regression high school students’ reading attitudes differs significantly by student age, studding schedule, place of coming, attending in class and group discussion, Education level of both parents, weather condition of the city, grade level and Average financial income but not by gender, school type and economic status of the family.

Influence of Authoritative, Authoritarian, Permissive, and the Uninvolved Parenting Styles on the Reading Attitudes of Students in Anambra State, Nigeria

Influence of Authoritative, Authoritarian, Permissive, and the Uninvolved Parenting Styles on the Reading Attitudes of Students in Anambra State, Nigeria Anthonia U. Echedom (Ph.D); Tochukwu Victor Nwankwo; Evangeline U. Nwankwo Abstract Purpose – This study sought to examine the influence of the authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and the uninvolved parenting styles on the reading attitudes of students. Design/Methodology/Approach – The study confined its scope to 4,987 Senior Secondary One (SS1) students of public secondary schools in Awka. 499 (10%) of the students were sampled through proportionate stratified random sampling technique. The instrument for data collection was questionnaire designed by the researchers titled ―Parenting Style Influence on Students‘ Reading Attitude Questionnaire (PSISRAQ); which contains 53 items. The descriptive survey research design was used as research method, while the secondary school students were stratified based on their local governments; for a comprehensive analysis of the study. Findings – The findings of the study among others reveals that the students‘ attitude toward reading in secondary schools is positive and highly encouragingand that the authoritative parenting style, more than any other, aids in ensuring healthy reading development. Also, children of the authoritarian parents are always criticized by their parents whenever they fail to impress them in their reading life. They take their parents‘ words as the only consideration and final decision in matters concerning reading. Hence, it is agreed that the authoritarian parenting style has a low and discouraging influence on the students‘ attitude to reading. Furthermore, it is agreed that the permissive parenting style has a moderate and encouraging influence on the students reading attitudes only if the child is naturally good in reading, while the uninvolved parenting style has a low and discouraging influence on the students‘ attitude to reading. Originality/value – Research studies focusing on the influence of the authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and the uninvolved parenting styles on the reading attitudes of students in Nigeria, are rare. Furthermore, while parents, librarians, educational institutions and stake holders may not be aware that their various parenting styles which fall into authoritative, authoritarian, permissive and uninvolved styles, have distinguished impacts in determining their children‘s attitude towards reading; it is imperative as this study reveals its indicting consequences. Full Text: PDF DOI: 10.15640/jlis.v6n2a1

The influences of inductive instruction and resources on students' attitudes toward reading: evidence from PISA 2009

The declining trend in the positive reading attitude of students' has concerned scholars. This paper aims to apply a 3-level hierarchical linear model to analyse how inductive instruction and resources influence both students' positive and negative attitudes towards reading. Approximately 470,000 15-year-old students, and their school principals, from 65 countries completed a questionnaire, which was designed by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). In line with previous research, gender, the student–teacher relationship, online academic searches, and reading habits are correlated with both positive and negative reading attitudes. Multilevel results show that reading attitudes improved when a school provides a context in which inductive instruction has been enforced. The natural log value of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in a country is statistically significantly negative when associated with a student's positive and negative reading attitudes. Further, in a country with largely unqualified teachers, school-level inductive teaching lowers the negative attitude.

A Comparison of the Reading Motivation and Reading Attitude of Students with Dyslexia and Students without Dyslexia in the Elementary Schools in Ilam, Iran

The purpose of this research is to compare reading motivation and reading attitude of students with dyslexia andstudents without dyslexia. The population of the study included 138 students with dyslexia studying inelementary schools in Ilam, Iran. Within this population, the researcher randomly selected 30 students for thepilot study. The remaining 108 dyslexic students were selected as the sample size but only 80 students withdyslexia participated in this study as the parents of the other and 28 parents’ of students with dyslexia did notallowed their children to participate. The researcher also selected 80 normal students who had been homogenizedand compared using the attitude and motivation scales. The reliability of the reading motivation and readingattitude scales was confirmed. The content validity of the scales was investigated using the judgment of 10psychology experts. The analysis of the findings through independent t-test showed a significant differencebetween the students with dyslexia and the students without dyslexia at ?<0.000.