The Effectiveness of Teaching Cognitive Strategies on Levels of Reading Comprehension of Narrative and Informational Texts with a Dynamic Approach

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Associate Professor of the Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Qom, Qom, Iran

2 PhD student in Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

3 Masters degree in Educational Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Qom University, Qom, Iran

Abstract

The present study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of teaching cognitive strategies on different levels of reading comprehension of narrative and informational texts among third grade elementary students of Dezful. This study was based on a multiple-baseline design across subjects. The tool used in this study was a set of teacher-made comprehension tests that included 20 texts matched in both narrative and informational genres. The study was conducted in 60 individual sessions for three subjects, Comprehension was assessed orally by semi-structured interviews. Finally, using graphical analysis and two nonoverlap methods i.e. NAP and TAU in Excel 2019 the effect sizes was calculated, and the results were discussed. After analyzing the data, although the effectiveness of strategic instruction method was evaluated, there was no significant difference between comprehension of the experimental and control subjects. However, in the separate analysis of the texts, it was observed that in the narrative texts, strategic instruction is more effective than the traditional one with effect sizes of 83% and 67%. Also, a similar significant difference was observed between subjects' reading comprehension in the levels of literal comprehension and reorganization, but no significant difference was found in the level of inferential comprehension. The results of this research showed the effectiveness of strategic instruction on reading comprehension based on low-level thinking.

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Journal of research in instructional methods
Volume 1, Issue 2
September 2023
Pages 25-52

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  • Receive Date: 15 November 2022
  • Revise Date: 02 March 2023
  • Accept Date: 26 April 2023

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