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1. Title: Cultivating students' reading habit by doing online "Reading Contract"*
2. Research questions:
- Examine the influence of doing online "Reading Contract"
- Explore the method cultivating students' reading habit
3. Participants
- Form 1 students promoted to Form 2
- Number of students: 25 (5 students from 5 different classes)
- Participants are selected randomly in each class
4. Reasons for doing the research
- Each academic year, students in my school need to complete "Reading Contract" during
1. Dec to May,
2. Easter Holiday,
3. Summer vacation.
- Through this research, I can examine how or if asking students to do "Reading Contract" can help to cultivate their reading habit.
- Result of the research can be the reference to regulate strategies for reading promotion in the library.
5. Data collected and analyzed
- Collected period: summer vacation of the academic year of 2007-08.
- Students performance on the "Reading Contract"
1. Frequency
2. Content of the reading reflection
3. Attitudes towards the online exercises
4. Levels / types of the books
- Students reflection after doing the "Reading Contract"
* What is Reading Contract:
- Posting reading reflection on the web
- This program was managed by HKEdCity.
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3 comments:
Hi Edith,
Your topic is very practical.
Since reading ability cannot be improved 'overnight', I think it is worth to extend your proposed project to a full academic year and to measure the students' performance 'phase-by-phase' during the three 'major' holiday breaks of students. In this way, any change in students' reading ability more 'statistically significant'.
However, I also understand that by extending the length of the research period, it may also pose difficulty in controlling the independent variables.
May be you can give a thought. Regardless of your decision remains the same, you may state how you have come up with the 'research period' to demonstrate that this factor has been thought through carefully.
Cheers,
Tai Chung Man, Jo from Four Seasons (Group 4)
Another problem might be the definition of "reading habit". Number of books read? Or qualitative self-assessment of "habit"?
This is a good topic, but I don't think that "reading contract" is useful, although I have distribute to our students too.
It might remind some students to read (or, just fill up the form :P), but I think that someone "reminded" to read is not having a "habit".
"Habit" should be regular and self-motivated. This may bring another measuring method:
1. to ask if the students fill in the form regularly. (i.e. they read regularly, not just complying teacher's request)
2. alter psychological questionnaire measuring addiction (on drugs/cigarette/alchohol etc.) to measure if students are "addicted to read" (it seems joking?)
Hi Edith,
As the aim of your research is to examine the impact of doing online reading contract on students' reading habit, will it be more effective if you take it as an experimental research, using either the “one-group pretest-posttest design” or the “pretest-posttest control group design”. It’s hard to analyze students’ reading habit merely based on their performance in the programme and their reflections on the programme. It is quite obvious that the frequency during that period will be higher than normal time, but this will not give you a thorough understanding of their reading habit. I think the research time has to be extended and some pre and post test/study might help to compare if there is any change in their reading habit.
Best,
Irene, NGAN Shuk Fun from Four Seasons
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