Doctoral Students' Reasons for Reading Empirical Research Articles: A Mixed Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Burgess, Melissa L.; Benge, Cindy; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.; Mallette, Marla H.
Titel	Doctoral Students' Reasons for Reading Empirical Research Articles: A Mixed Analysis
Quelle	In: Journal of Effective Teaching, 12 (2012) 3, S.5-33 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1935-7869
Schlagwörter	Doctoral Programs; Reading Ability; Thematic Approach; Mixed Methods Research; Evidence Based Practice; Journal Articles; Reading Habits; Graduate Students; Research Reports; Reading Attitudes; Attribution Theory; Incidence; Reading Interests; Student Surveys; Nelson Denny Reading Tests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Doktorandenprogramm; Reading competence; Lesekompetenz; Themenzentrierter Unterricht; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Reading habit; Lesegewohnheit; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Research report; Forschungsbericht; Reading behavior; Rading behaviour; Leseverhalten; Vorkommen; Leseinteresse; Schülerbefragung
Abstract	Little is known about reading ability among doctoral students. Thus, we used a fully mixed concurrent equal status design (Leech & Onwuegbuzie, 2009) to examine 205 doctoral students in the College of Education and their reasons for reading research articles. A thematic analysis revealed 5 themes (subsumed by 2 meta-themes) explaining reasons for reading. A series of canonical correlation analyses revealed statistically significant multivariate relationships between reasons for reading empirical articles and (a) reading intensity (i.e., frequency of reading empirical research articles, number of empirical research articles read each month) and (b) reading ability (i.e., reading comprehension, reading vocabulary). The implications of these and other findings are discussed. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01