2007
DOI: 10.1598/jaal.50.5.5
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Assessing Adolescents' Motivation to Read

Abstract: A team of researchers revised the Motivation to Read Profile for use with adolescents. Instruments to assess adolescents' in‐ and out‐of‐school reading motivations were administered. A survey adapted for adolescents was administered to 384 teens at eight sites throughout the United States and Trinidad, and 100 students were interviewed using a revised instrument designed to capture the real reading of adolescents today. The teens were asked questions about fiction, expository, and computer‐based reading materi… Show more

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“…Internal consistency was calculated by Cronbach 's alpha coefficient for the overall score and scales of AMSR. Convergent validity was analyzed by Pearson correlations with the scores of the subjects in the reading motivation scale AMRP (Pitcher, Albright, Delaney, Walker et al, 2007). The results indicate, firstly, that the internal consistency of the original English version is somewhat higher than that of the adapted version on the global scale and subscales, but the subscales of the original version have higher internal consistency are the same that in the adapted version.…”
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confidence: 95%
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“…Internal consistency was calculated by Cronbach 's alpha coefficient for the overall score and scales of AMSR. Convergent validity was analyzed by Pearson correlations with the scores of the subjects in the reading motivation scale AMRP (Pitcher, Albright, Delaney, Walker et al, 2007). The results indicate, firstly, that the internal consistency of the original English version is somewhat higher than that of the adapted version on the global scale and subscales, but the subscales of the original version have higher internal consistency are the same that in the adapted version.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…El cuestionario de evaluación de la motivación lectora AMRP (Pitcher, Albright, Delaney, Walker et al, 2007) está formada por 20 ítems. Todos los ítems son preguntas en formato likert de respuesta que los participantes tienen que valorar de 1 a 4, representando (1) la respuesta más positiva y (4) la respuesta más negativa.…”
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“…This is in conformity with Thorkildsen and Nichols (1998); according to which the students with high achievement orientation will strive to outperform the others and achieve good assessment in their learning, including in reading. In fact, motivation to read is associated with a desire to excel in reading (Pitcher et al, 2007;De Naeghel, Van Keer, Vansteenkiste & Rosseel, 2012;McGeown et al, 2016;Meniado, 2016;.…”
Section: Students' Motivation To Readmentioning
confidence: 99%