Article Title:
“Culture, Motivation, and Reading Achievement: High School Students in 41 Countries”
Authors:
Ming Ming Chiu & Bonnie Wing Yin Chow
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APA Citation:
Chiu, M. M., & Chow, B. Y. (2010). Culture, motivation, and reading achievement: High school students in 41 countries. Learning And Individual Differences, 20(6), 579-592. doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2010.03.007
Summary:
This was an interesting article about a massive study concerning how both the cultural values and family cultural capital is linked to student/adolescent motivation and reading achievement. It is spot on concerning the topic of my own personal research study, but included far more in-depth analysis and details than I particularly needed for the purposes of my master’s thesis. It does a great job of analyzing almost 200,000 fifteen-year-old students from all around the world, examining various factors exhibiting an effect on overall reading achievement. This article included breakdown between males and females, as well as family support. All in all, this study supports the ideas that both culture and family are highly linked to student achievement and performance in reading, all around the world. Additionally, it concludes that there is a major clash between genders, highlighting the increasing achievement gap between the two groups. This study went more in-depth than I needed when looking at family support/influence as extrinsic motivators towards achievement and performance in reading.
“Culture, Motivation, and Reading Achievement: High School Students in 41 Countries”
Authors:
Ming Ming Chiu & Bonnie Wing Yin Chow
Permalink:
https://ezproxy.western.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=psyh&AN=2010-08882-001&site=eds-live
APA Citation:
Chiu, M. M., & Chow, B. Y. (2010). Culture, motivation, and reading achievement: High school students in 41 countries. Learning And Individual Differences, 20(6), 579-592. doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2010.03.007
Summary:
This was an interesting article about a massive study concerning how both the cultural values and family cultural capital is linked to student/adolescent motivation and reading achievement. It is spot on concerning the topic of my own personal research study, but included far more in-depth analysis and details than I particularly needed for the purposes of my master’s thesis. It does a great job of analyzing almost 200,000 fifteen-year-old students from all around the world, examining various factors exhibiting an effect on overall reading achievement. This article included breakdown between males and females, as well as family support. All in all, this study supports the ideas that both culture and family are highly linked to student achievement and performance in reading, all around the world. Additionally, it concludes that there is a major clash between genders, highlighting the increasing achievement gap between the two groups. This study went more in-depth than I needed when looking at family support/influence as extrinsic motivators towards achievement and performance in reading.
I have found this article to be very interesting and inspiring for multiple reasons. One, For my own research, I am exploring achievement gaps among two different groups of students and it has become more and more evident that something must be done to help close these gaps. and two, I found myself most drawn to this article based on the family support aspect because the organization I work for is a family literacy center, where our goal is family involvement and support. Up until this past year, when I first started working at Teton Literacy Center, I truly never understood how beneficial family support can be when it comes to student achievement, however, it seems to me now to make perfect sense.
ReplyDeleteThis is a fantastic sample size- 200,000, and internationally as well. Understanding the different backgrounds of our students, and how that affects their learning, is so important when planning targeted interventions. My teaching friends who studied in Canada are required to take several cultural training classes related to privilege and socioeconomic inequalities, as well as cultural differences, and I really wish we had the same classes for teacher training here in America. This article was a great help to me in my own placement, thank you!
ReplyDeleteThis study reaffirms the ideas I have read about culture and families highly tied to achievement and performance in reading. I'm also interested in the clash between genders. Our school is seeing some of these trends. I wonder what it is attributed to? I have a feeling we are going to hear more and more on that in future years. Great post. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteIt sounds to me as though this is a powerful article not only for your own research but that of others in this program. It seems solid with a large sample size as well. Thanks for sharing this.
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