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 ...
First Language Reading Literacy of Children Educated in an Immersion ProgramSummary: Fifty-two fourth-graders performed German reading literacy tests and an intelligence test. Twenty of the tested children were educated in an immersion English-German ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 link between empathy and literary text comprehensionIn literary studies affective aspects, such as empathy, are considered to be important, which has not been empirically proven yet. The present study examines the relationship between empathy and ...
Zusammenfassung. In diesem Beitrag werden Ergebnisse einer quantitativen Erhebung vorgestellt, in der verschiedene Aspekte von Lesekompetenz untersucht und miteinander in Beziehung gesetzt wurden. Die Studie basiert auf einer repräsentativen ...