The Effects of Reciprocal Teaching Comprehension-monitoring Strategy on 3Rd Grade Students' Reading Comprehension. Metadata

Title

• Main Title The Effects of Reciprocal Teaching Comprehension-monitoring Strategy on 3Rd Grade Students' Reading Comprehension.

Creator

• Author: Sarasti, Israel A.
  Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

• Chair: Laney, James D.
  Contributor Type: Personal
  Contributor Info: Major Professor
• Committee Member: Smith, Richard
  Contributor Type: Personal
  Contributor Info: Minor Professor
• Committee Member: Crocker, Betty
  Contributor Type: Personal

Publisher

• Name: University of North Texas
  Place of Publication: Denton, Texas

Date

• Creation: 2007-08
• Digitized: 2007-11-05

Language

• English

Description

• Content Description: Reciprocal teaching comprehension-monitoring is a reading comprehension instructional procedure that combines four instructional strategies: predicting, summarizing, questioning, and clarifying to enhance students' comprehension of text. The procedure is a dialogue between the teacher and the students. During reciprocal teaching instruction, the teacher and students take turns leading the dialogue in order to enhance the students' comprehension-monitoring skills. The research on reciprocal teaching has included meta-analyses, group designs, qualitative designs, and single-subject research designs. These studies have identified gaps in the literature to include the measurement of treatment fidelity and treatment acceptability, as well as the psychometric properties of the instruments used to measure daily reading comprehension growth. These gaps were investigated in this study. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of reciprocal teaching comprehension-monitoring with a group of fifteen 3rd grade students reading at grade level. Specifically, this study investigated the use of curriculum-based measurement maze probes (CBM-maze probes) to formatively assess the reading comprehension growth of the students. Additionally, this study implemented treatment integrity procedures and investigated the acceptability of reciprocal teaching and the CBM-maze probes through a treatment acceptability rating scale. A multiple baseline across groups with three phases (baseline, intervention, follow-up) was employed. Overall, visual analysis of the data suggested reciprocal teaching was an effective intervention in increasing reading comprehension abilities in students as measured by the CBM-maze probes. All three groups exhibited continual growth on the daily comprehension measures across all three phases. Implications for practice, cautions in interpreting the results, and future directions are discussed.

Subject

• Keyword: Reciprocal teaching
• Keyword: curriculum-based measurement
• Keyword: reading comprehension
• Keyword: maze probe
• Keyword: progress monitoring
• Library of Congress Subject Headings: Reading comprehension.
• Library of Congress Subject Headings: Reading (Elementary)

Collection

• Name: UNT Theses and Dissertations
  Code: UNTETD

Institution

• Name: UNT Libraries
  Code: UNT

Rights

• Rights Access: public
• Rights License: copyright
• Rights Holder: Sarasti, Israel A.
• Rights Statement: Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Resource Type

• Thesis or Dissertation

Format

• Text

Identifier

• OCLC: 192018096
• Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc3919

Degree

• Degree Name: Doctor of Education
• Degree Level: Doctoral
• Degree Discipline: Curriculum and Instruction
• Academic Department: Department of Teacher Education and Administration
• Degree Grantor: University of North Texas

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