Table 1 Studies included in the review regarding the effects of reading intervention on reading self-concept (RSC)
Authors | Title | Participates | Intervention type | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bates, D’Agostino, Gambrell, and Xu (2016) | Reading recovery: exploring the effects on first graders’ reading motivation and achievement | First grade children | Phonological | Increase in reading motivation |
Chapman, Tunmer, and Prochnow (2001) | Does success in the reading recovery program depend on developing proficiency in phonological-processing skills? A longitudinal study in a whole language instructional context | Second grade children | Phonological | Decrease in RSC, which continued at the follow-up testing point as well (middle and end of the third year) |
Chen and Savage (2014) | Evidence for a simplicity principle: teaching common complex grapheme-to-phonemes improves reading and motivation in at-risk readers | First grade and second grade children | Phonological | Increase in RSC only for the second grade readers. The first grade readers did not improve their RSC |
Förster and Souvignier (2014) | Learning progress assessment and goal setting: effects on reading achievement, reading motivation and reading self-concept | Fourth grade readers | Metacognitive | Decrease in RSC due to teachers’ feedback which contrasted the readers’ overestimation of reading skills with actual performance. |
Higgins, Fitzgerald, and Howard (2015) | Literacy Lift-Off: an experimental evaluation of a reading recovery program on literacy skills and reading self-concept | First grade readers | Phonological | Increase in RSC |
Hornery, Seaton, Tracey, Craven, and Yeung (2014) | Enhancing reading skills and reading self-concept of children with reading difficulties: adopting a dual approach intervention | Second to fifth grade readers | Fluency | Increase in RSC |
Law and Kratochwill (1993) | Paired reading: an evaluation of a parent tutorial program | Second to fourth grade readers | Fluency | Increases in self-confidence and attitude toward reading |
Nes Ferrara (2005) | Reading fluency and self-efficacy: a case study | A sixth-grade struggling reader | Fluency | Increases in RSC and self-efficacy |