Understanding variation in children's reading comprehension: A dynamic approach.
Background: Reading comprehension is an interactive process. Yet, instructional needs are usually identified with isolated componential tests. This study examined whether a dynamic approach, in which componential abilities are measured within the same text and global text comprehension is facilitate...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 876 - 902 |
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| Formato: | clinical trial pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=176012484&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 176012484 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 02664909 6M1 jtl: Journal of Computer Assisted Learning issn: 02664909 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Apr2024 vid: 40 iid: 2 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 176012484 174196769 176012484 176012484 10.1111/jcal.12923 176012484 ppf: 876 ppct: 26 formats: tig: atl: Understanding variation in children's reading comprehension: A dynamic approach. aug: au: Gruhn, Sophie Segers, Eliane Keuning, Jos Verhoeven, Ludo affil: Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands sug: subj: Computer-Assisted Instruction Reading Evaluation Feedback Vocabulary Human Child Netherlands Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design Clinical Trials Teaching Methods Learning Evaluation Skill Acquisition Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis Software Intraclass Correlation Coefficient Chi Square Test Odds Ratio Child: 6-12 years ab: Background: Reading comprehension is an interactive process. Yet, instructional needs are usually identified with isolated componential tests. This study examined whether a dynamic approach, in which componential abilities are measured within the same text and global text comprehension is facilitated via feedback, can help in understanding variation in children's reading comprehension. Objectives: With a pretest‐posttest control group design, componential abilities before and after feedback were related to growth in global text comprehension within the same text. Methods: At pretest, third to fifth graders read 30 short texts, each followed by one global text comprehension question. This was repeated at posttest, but additional questions were asked with feedback prior to each global text comprehension question. The vocabulary group received two vocabulary questions with feedback (n = 97). The vocabulary plus integration group received two vocabulary questions and one sentence‐integration question with feedback (n = 98). The control group (n = 98) only answered the global text comprehension questions. Results and Conclusion: Participants in the experimental conditions who needed feedback (i.e., lower‐skilled) experienced a decrease in global text comprehension, whereas this was not found for the control group and participants in the experimental groups who did not need feedback (i.e., higher‐skilled). There was also less decrease among those lower‐skilled participants who had profited from the feedback. Implications: It is concluded from explorative analyses that not feedback but the overall design caused the decrease. Conceptually, the dynamic approach is worth further research. Lay Description: What is already known about this topic: Reading comprehension is a complex interaction of several componential abilities at word level, sentence level, and text level (e.g., vocabulary and sentence‐integration).Instruction should adapt to the profile of strengths and weaknesses in componential abilities.Assessing componential abilities with isolated tests does not align with the interactive processes in reading comprehension.Measuring learning ability can help to identify children with low responsiveness to instruction. What this paper adds: Reading comprehension is profiled by asking questions on vocabulary, sentence‐integration, and global text comprehension for the same text in third to fifth graders (8–11 years olds).Feedback is provided after a mistake in a vocabulary and sentence‐integration question, and the feedback effect on global text comprehension is measured with a pretest‐posttest design.Children who receive feedback decrease in global text comprehension but children with higher skills in componential abilities decrease less.Explorative analyses and previous research indicate that the assessment design had a negative impact on performance, for example, via cognitive load, attention, self‐esteem, and motivation. Implications for practice and/or policy: Global text comprehension cannot always be facilitated by providing feedback on vocabulary and sentence‐integration within the same text.The design of the assessment and its influence on performance should be carefully considered by instructional designers, educators, and researchers, especially in case of young learners.It remains unclear from this study if facilitating global text comprehension via feedback with a dynamic approach is useful to understand variation in children's reading comprehension.The dynamic approach with a proper design may potentially still provide a useful insight in individual differences. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: clinical trial pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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