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Normative data for eight dimensions of reading attitudes: Canadian public school students
Author(s) -
Hummel Jeffrey W.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(198410)21:4<433::aid-pits2310210405>3.0.co;2-a
Subject(s) - reading (process) , psychology , normative , metropolitan area , reliability (semiconductor) , mathematics education , comics , social psychology , developmental psychology , linguistics , medicine , art , philosophy , power (physics) , physics , literature , epistemology , pathology , quantum mechanics
Abstract The Survey of Reading Attitudes was administered to 613 fourth‐, fifth‐, and sixth‐grade students enrolled in the schools that serve the metropolitan area of a small city in Ontario, Canada. Means, standard deviations, coefficient of alpha reliability estimates, and standard errors of measurement were computed for the eight dimensions of reading attitude included in the Survey. The reliability estimates for the respective dimensions are as follows: Expressed Reading Difficulty, α = .88, Reading as Direct Reinforcement, α = .83, Reading as Enjoyment, α = .89, Alternative Learning Modes, α = .72, Reading Group, α = .81, Reading Anxiety, α = .82, Silent vs. Oral Reading, α = .83, and Comics, α = .79.