Summary: The fact that students are at an advantage when working on reading literacy items from their own cultural and linguistic background in an international large scale assessment can be seen as a threat to the fairness of a test. An IRT-based ...
Moving Strategy-Oriented Reading Instruction into the Classroom: The Role of the TeacherAbstract: The study investigated the effects of aspects of teaching behavior and teacher attitudes on the effectiveness of a newly developed teaching program. ...
Reading Comprehension, Language in the Family and During Leisure Time: Results from the Hannover Primary School StudyAbstract. This study aims at eliciting conditions of reading literacy (reading comprehension) in primary school age, based on both ...
Reading Literacy and Reading Motivation: Their Development and the Mediation of the Relationship by Reading BehaviorThis study examines the development of reading literacy and intrinsic reading motivation from grades 3 to 6, as well as the mutual ...
Teachers’ Diagnostic Skills to Judge Student Performance and Task Difficulty When Learning Materials Include Instructional PicturesTeachers’ diagnostic skills are important prerequisites for the planning, delivery, and evaluation of lessons. Learning ...
Fan Spread Effects in a Tracked and a Nontracked School System: Is There Evidence for Differential Linguistic Competence Development at the Transition from Primary to Secondary School?The German tracked secondary school system provides differential ...
Lower Secondary School Teacher Judgment Accuracy of Students’ Reading Competence – A Matter of Specificity?Abstract.The present study investigated and compared the accuracy of global and task-specific teacher ...
Computer Assisted Reading Comprehension Instruction: Effects of Automatically Generated Content FeedbackAbstract:We compared the effects of computer assisted instruction (“conText”) with an explicit strategy instruction training (“Let’s Become Reading ...
Reading Self-Concept and Text Type: Can Literary and Factual Reading Self-Concept be Differentiated?Reading self-concept is an important predictor of general reading competence. Thus far it is not clear whether a further differentiation depending on the ...
Extended Analyses of the Migration-Related gap in Reading Achievement – Differential Item Functioning Between Children with and without an Immigrant Background Based on the Progress of Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS)School achievement studies show ...
Fostering reading comprehension in regular classrooms: Implementation and effectiveness of whole-class reciprocal teachingAbstract. The aim of this longitudinal study was to examine the effects of two different teacher-led classroom reading literacy ...
Supporting language competencies – The potential of the family language for vocabulary acquisition from textsAbstract. Language competencies such as vocabulary are core prerequisites for educational success and integration in society. In reference to ...
Parental gender beliefs, family characteristics and school achievementAbstract. There is a large body of research documenting gender differences in school achievement. According to Eccles' (1983; 2015) ...
Training cognitive abilities in kindergartens and schools: How effective are these programs, and how well are they implemented in educational contexts?Abstract. This paper deals with recent progress regarding the ...
Differences between elementary school students in perception of instructional quality in German classesAbstract. Students' perceptions of teaching quality vary within classrooms. Several student characteristics are ...
The influence of school type on reading fluency developmentThe process of reading acquisition is characterized by a gradually increasing degree of automatization regarding grapheme-phoneme correspondence and the concurrent developing semantic system. ...
Zusammenfassung. In dieser Längsschnittstudie wurden die Entwicklungen von Lesekompetenz, Lesemotivation und Leseselbstkonzept am Anfang der Sekundarstufe untersucht. Insbesondere wurde dabei der Frage nach differenziellen Entwicklungen dieser Faktoren ...
The role of family variables in reading literacy, vocabulary, reading motivation, and reading behaviorAbstract. Drawing on research findings concerning family influences on educational outcomes and on reading proficiency, this article investigates the ...
Zusammenfassung. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Zusammenhang zwischen der Lesekompetenzentwicklung und der Entwicklung des außerschulischen Leseverhaltens von Schülerinnen und Schülern in den Klassenstufen 3 bis 5. Im Mittelpunkt der ...The relation between extra-curricular reading behavior and reading competence: Results from a longitudinal study at the transition from primary to secondary schoolAbstract. In the present article the developmental pathways between reading competence and ...