The Effects of Reading Flexibility Tasks on Comprehension

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dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Ann
dc.contributor.programMasters of Educationen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-10T21:49:44Z
dc.date.available2016-03-10T21:49:44Z
dc.date.issued2010-05
dc.descriptionTo see paper in its entirety contact archives@goucher.edu or call (410)337-6075.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study was to determine whether reading-specific flexibility tasks would increase the reading comprehension scores of selected second graders enrolled in the researcher’s class. The measurement tools used in the study included weekly teacher-made story assessments, the Anne Arundel County (Maryland) Language Arts Benchmark, and Open Court fluency assessments. This study involved the use of a pretest/posttest design to compare data from February 2010 (before the treatment was administered) to data from March 2010 (after the treatment was administered). Gains in achievement were not statistically significant. Factors that may be related to that lack of statistical significance are the length of the study as well as the limited number of students included in the groups that participated in the study. Research in the area of teaching students to think more flexibly about word sounds and meanings should be continued to enhance instruction in this area. This, in turn, likely would result in improvement in students’ decoding and comprehension, thereby creating more fluent readers.en_US
dc.format.extent31 p.en_US
dc.genreaction research papersen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M23B2S
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/2567
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relationMaster of Education
dc.relation.isAvailableAtGoucher College, Baltimore, MD
dc.rightsCollection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain information or permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Goucher Special Collections & Archives at 410-337-6347 or email archives@goucher.edu.
dc.subject.lcshEducation -- Research papers (Graduate)
dc.subject.lcshReading comprehension
dc.subject.lcshReading comprehension -- Testing
dc.titleThe Effects of Reading Flexibility Tasks on Comprehensionen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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