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  • Dimensions of reading motivation and reading achievement in 3rd and 7th grade students
    Pečjak, Sonja ; Peklaj, Cirila
    Our study was based on recent research on reading motivation that emerged from strategic learning theory and focused on connections between cognitive, motivational and social aspects of reading ... (Baker, Afflerbach, Reinking, 1996;Guthrie, Alvermann, 1999; Baker, Wigfield, 1999). The purpose of the study was twofold: first, to develop and adapt the instruments for measuring the dimensions of reading motivation for younger and older primary school students, and second, to find the differences in motivational dimensions according to students' reading achievement and their sex in both groups. 1042 third grade (509 girls and 533 boys) and 1124 seventh grade (592 girls and 532 boys) students from different Slovene primary schools participated in the study. A 26-item questionnaire was constructed to measure reading motivation in younger students. Factor analysis (varimax rotation, scree test) revealed three factors: interest in reading, lack of self-efficacy and self-efficacy inoral reading. Further statistical analysis (ANOVA) showed significant main effects for reading achievement and sex in interest and in lack of self-efficacy in reading. Good readers had the highest results in both factorsand poor readers the lowest results. In addition, girls had higher results than boys in both factors. Motivation for Reading Questionnaire (Guthrie, Wigfield, 1997) was adapted for older students. Factor analysis (varimax rotation, scree test) of 54-item questionnaire revealed four reading motivation factors: external motivation, interest and reading in social context, and in involvment and immersion in reading. The results for lack of self-efficacy were reversed. Significant differences were also found accordingto students' sex. Girls constantly showed higher results in external motivation, in interest and reading in social context and in involvement and immersion in reading than boys. Implications for educational practice as well as future research are discussed.
    Vir: Studia psychologica. - ISSN 0039-3320 (Vol. 48, no. 1, 2005, str. 11-30)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2006
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 31507298

vir: Studia psychologica. - ISSN 0039-3320 (Vol. 48, no. 1, 2005, str. 11-30)

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