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- Creator:
- Solberg, Dorothy L.
- Description:
- [Purpose of Study] This research was conducted to investigate a statement made by John R. Bormuth. He indicates that when the student regards material as too easy for him, he exhibits avoidance behaviors claiming that the materials are "childish" and "talk down" to him and his attention wanders if he is made to study them. Similarly, when the materials are too difficult the student exhibits the signs associated with frustration. Coleman's data3 suggests that subject ability and passage difficulty may produce an interaction effect upon information gain such that very able students might exhibit less information gain on vecy easy passcges than on those passages at an intermediate level of difficulty. In a stucy of specially-witten mult:ip le-cmice test scores given after cloze exercises. Loomer (1966) concluded that cloze tests made from very easy materials were less "motivating" than materials more closely associated with grade level of the subjects. 'Ihe purpose of this study, then, is to determine whether ,children do in faut achieve higher scores when the work is at their own grade level than they would if it was below their so-called "reading" level.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Education