Development and Determination of Psychometric Indicators of Reading Strategies Scale among Elementary Second Year Students (Grades 4, 5 and 6)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• fatemeh salim haghighi ¹
• Mohammad khayyer ²
• siamak Samani ³
• Azarmidokht rezaei ⁴

¹ islamic azad univercity , marvdasht , iran

² Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, Shiraz University

³ Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

⁴ Assistant Professor, Department of General Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran

Abstract

This study aimed to develop psychometric indicators of Reading Strategies Scale among elementary school students in Shiraz in the academic year of 98-97. For this purpose, 573 male and female students were selected by multistage cluster sampling method and answered the questionnaires.
Questionnaire of 66 questions including cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational beliefs. Reliability of the scale was assessed by Cronbach's alpha of 0.88, split-half of 0.86 and retest of 0.87, respectively. The results indicated that the scale was reliable and the reliability of the scale was validated. The results showed that there were three strong significant factors with a specific value higher than one on this scale. For concurrent validity of the questionnaire, reading strategies were used to calculate the correlation coefficient between this questionnaire and the Joyce, Reading Rating, Math and Dictation Questionnaire. Also, there was a positive and significant relationship between the dimensions of Reading Strategies Scale and Joyce Reading Strategies Scale, Reading Rating, Spelling and Mathematical Rating Scale. Overall, the results showed that Reading Strategies Scale among elementary school students in Shiraz was a suitable tool for Research measures.

Keywords

• reading strategies use
• psychometrics
• cognition
• metacognition
• motivational beliefs

20.1001.1.22285516.1399.11.40.1.3

Main Subjects

• Psychological Models and Methods

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