Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
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Keywords
Reading promotion; Motivation in education; Reading (Elementary);
Abstract
This study was designed to examine the effects of external rewards on students' intrinsic motivation to read and reading achievement. It specifically looked at how a reading incentive program affects students' motivational beliefs, time spent in out-of-school reading, and reading achievement. Participants included 83 fourth and fifth grade students from a rural elementary school in Midwestern Iowa. Participants were divided into three groups based on time spent in out-of-school reading before the incentive program was implemented. Specifically, the three groups were: high. middle, and low intrinsic reading groups. The dependent variables in this study included time spent in out-of school reading, motivational beliefs, and reading fluency. Results indicated that participants in the initial high intrinisic reading group read significantly less out-of-school after the implementation of the reading program than before the program. There were no significant differences between out-of-school reading times for students who initially showed low intrinsic interest to read. Additional analyses were conducted to measure changes in motivational beliefs and reading fluency. Future research should continue to be conducted in the students' natural environment, the classroom. More research is needed to examine the short term and long term effects of time spent reading after rewards have been removed.
Year of Submission
2000
Degree Name
Specialist in Education
Department
Department of Educational Psychology and Foundations
First Advisor
Anthony Gabriele
Date Original
2000
Object Description
1 PDF file (86 leaves)
Copyright
©2000 Jennifer Deann Jacobson
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Jacobson, Jennifer Deann, "Effects of external rewards on elementary students' intrinsic motivation to read and reading achievement : an examination of a reading incentive program" (2000). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 1157.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/1157
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