Factors affecting inner-city boys' reading: Are male teachers the answer?
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Sokal, Laura
Katz, Herb
Adkins, Matthew
Grills, Tannis
Stewart, Crystal
Priddle, Greg
Sych-Yereniuk, Anastasia
Chochinov-Harder, Lori
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2005Citation
Sokal, Laura, Herb Katz, Matthew Adkins, Tannis Grills, Crystal Stewart, Greg Priddle, Anastasia Sych-Yereniuk, and Lori Chochinov-Harder. "Factors affecting inner-city boys' reading: Are male teachers the answer?" Canadian Journal of Urban Research 14(1) (2005): 107-130.
Abstract
Eighteen inner-city first and second grade boys participated in a pilot study on
the effect of sex of reading teacher on boys' attitudes toward and performance
in reading. Each boy participated with either male or female research assistants
in a 22-week Paired Reading intervention using texts shown to be of high interest
to boys. Findings suggest that these contexts yield significant increases in boys'
reading performance, sense of physiological well-being while reading, and their
sense of reading progress regardless of the sex of their reading teacher. | Dix-huit gar9ons du centre-ville en premiere et deuxieme annee ont participe
dans une etude pilote sur les effets du sexe du professeur de lecture sur les
attitudes envers et la performance dans la lecture. Chaque gar^on a participe
avec ou bien des assistants de recherche male ou femelle dans une intervention
de "Paired Reading" de 22 semaines en utilisant des textes prouves d'etre
fortement interessant aux gar9ons. La recherche suggere que ces contextes
donnent des augmentations signifiantes dans la performance du gar9on dans
sa lecture, le sens de bien-etre physiologique pendant la lecture, et un sens de
progres dans la lecture peu importe le sexe de l'instmcteur de lecture.