Measuring reading behavior in large-scale assessments and surveys
Large amounts of studies have shown that reading behavior is an important aspect for the development of students’ reading skills. The construct reading behavior as examined in large-scale assessments and surveys within the field of empirical educational research is operationalized through a wide ran...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2023-02-01
|
| Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1044290/full |
| _version_ | 1797934861235781632 |
|---|---|
| author | Franziska Maria Locher Maik Philipp |
| author_facet | Franziska Maria Locher Maik Philipp |
| author_sort | Franziska Maria Locher |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | Large amounts of studies have shown that reading behavior is an important aspect for the development of students’ reading skills. The construct reading behavior as examined in large-scale assessments and surveys within the field of empirical educational research is operationalized through a wide range of reading and reading-related aspects (e.g., reading time, reading frequency, print exposure, reading engagement, book genre preferences, knowledge of authors or book titles) and a broad array of measurement methods are used. The approaches to measure the same variable – namely reading behavior – differ fundamentally from each other, while at the same time, a clear concept that would help to classify the used measurement instruments and to interpret them in relation to the superordinate construct of reading behavior is missing. Therefore, the present article aims to give an overview of methods to measure reading behavior within the context of large-scale assessments and surveys, and to discuss how they were implemented. Finally, we make some suggestions on how it might be possible to relate the applied measurement approaches to each other, especially in terms of their content and theoretical relationship to the overarching construct of reading behavior. |
| first_indexed | 2024-04-10T18:06:36Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-efb652fb09854a119c6525f28cd53f6e |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 1664-1078 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-04-10T18:06:36Z |
| publishDate | 2023-02-01 |
| publisher | Frontiers Media S.A. |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Frontiers in Psychology |
| spelling | doaj.art-efb652fb09854a119c6525f28cd53f6e2023-02-02T13:09:50ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-02-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.10442901044290Measuring reading behavior in large-scale assessments and surveysFranziska Maria Locher0Maik Philipp1Department of Educational Assessment, St.Gallen University of Teacher Education, St. Gallen, SwitzerlandDepartment for Higher and Adult Education, Zurich University of Teacher Education, Zurich, SwitzerlandLarge amounts of studies have shown that reading behavior is an important aspect for the development of students’ reading skills. The construct reading behavior as examined in large-scale assessments and surveys within the field of empirical educational research is operationalized through a wide range of reading and reading-related aspects (e.g., reading time, reading frequency, print exposure, reading engagement, book genre preferences, knowledge of authors or book titles) and a broad array of measurement methods are used. The approaches to measure the same variable – namely reading behavior – differ fundamentally from each other, while at the same time, a clear concept that would help to classify the used measurement instruments and to interpret them in relation to the superordinate construct of reading behavior is missing. Therefore, the present article aims to give an overview of methods to measure reading behavior within the context of large-scale assessments and surveys, and to discuss how they were implemented. Finally, we make some suggestions on how it might be possible to relate the applied measurement approaches to each other, especially in terms of their content and theoretical relationship to the overarching construct of reading behavior.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1044290/fullreading behaviorprint exposurereading activitymeasurementlarge-scale assessment |
| spellingShingle | Franziska Maria Locher Maik Philipp Measuring reading behavior in large-scale assessments and surveys Frontiers in Psychology reading behavior print exposure reading activity measurement large-scale assessment |
| title | Measuring reading behavior in large-scale assessments and surveys |
| title_full | Measuring reading behavior in large-scale assessments and surveys |
| title_fullStr | Measuring reading behavior in large-scale assessments and surveys |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring reading behavior in large-scale assessments and surveys |
| title_short | Measuring reading behavior in large-scale assessments and surveys |
| title_sort | measuring reading behavior in large scale assessments and surveys |
| topic | reading behavior print exposure reading activity measurement large-scale assessment |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1044290/full |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT franziskamarialocher measuringreadingbehaviorinlargescaleassessmentsandsurveys AT maikphilipp measuringreadingbehaviorinlargescaleassessmentsandsurveys |