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Reading Motivation and Comprehension: Using iSTART-3 to Improve Comprehension in South Africa
Description
The purposes of the study are to: 1) investigate how students' motivation towards reading is related to their reading comprehension skills, and 2) assess the impact of using an Intelligent Tutoring System to improve comprehension. Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking-3 (iSTART-3) is a game-based tutoring system designed to improve students' reading comprehension skills. The current study was conducted in South Africa with 8th and 9th graders between the ages of 14 and 18. These students are multilingual and they learn English as a First Additional Language (English-FAL). Firstly, we predict that students who are highly motivated to read will have high comprehension scores than those who are slightly or not at all motivated to read. Secondly, we predict that the use of iSTART-3 will improve students' reading comprehension, regardless of their level of reading motivation, with better results for those who are more motivated to read. Counter to our predictions, the results did not reveal a relation between reading motivation and reading comprehension. Furthermore, an effect of iSTART-3 on reading comprehension was not found. These results were likely influenced by the small sample size and the length of the intervention.
Date Created
2018-12
Contributors
- Seerane, Thato (Author)
- McNamara, Danielle (Thesis director)
- Glenberg, Arthur (Committee member)
- Lynch, Christa (Committee member)
- Department of Psychology (Contributor)
- School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Contributor)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
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31 pages
Language
eng
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In Copyright
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Academic Year 2018-2019
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.50949
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minimal
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