Prediction of Elementary Student Reading Achievement From Specific Home Environment Variables
Date of Graduation
Spring 1990
Degree
Master of Science in Education in Elementary Education
Department
Childhood Education and Family Studies
Committee Chair
Darrell Roubinek
Abstract
The purpose of this study was twofold: to determine the relationship between reading achievement and certain social and literary variables of the home environment and to determine what combination of these variables would most accurately predict reading achievement. A parent survey was distributed to all students in Grades 1 through 6 of one school. All data were available for 492 students. A correlation matrix was generated by using the Pearson product-moment formula. A stepwise multiple regression analysis computed the predictors of reading achievement. The educational level of the father was both highly significant to and the greatest predictor of reading achievement. The strongest relationships with, and predictors of, reading achievement, from the literary variables, were reading to the child before school entry and the variety of printed materials in the home.
Subject Categories
Elementary Education and Teaching
Copyright
© Barbara S Anglum
Recommended Citation
Anglum, Barbara S., "Prediction of Elementary Student Reading Achievement From Specific Home Environment Variables" (1990). MSU Graduate Theses. 450.
https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/450
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