Reading enjoyment and reading skills: Lessons from an experiment with first grade children
Marc Gurgand
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Eric Maurin
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Résumé
We consider a very intensive program targeted at low performing first graders identified by teachers as lacking appropriate parental support at home. The ambition of the program is to convey these children the daily contact with books that they may lack at home in order to develop their taste for reading and, eventually, their reading skills. Based on a controlled experiment in 109 French schools from deprived areas, we do find that taste for reading is significantly improved. However, there is no indication that this translates into higher reading skills, neither during the program year, nor during the next year.
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Economies et financesFormat du dépôt | Notice |
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Type de dépôt | Article dans une revue |
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Reading enjoyment and reading skills: Lessons from an experiment with first grade children
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Résumé |
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We consider a very intensive program targeted at low performing first graders identified by teachers as lacking appropriate parental support at home. The ambition of the program is to convey these children the daily contact with books that they may lack at home in order to develop their taste for reading and, eventually, their reading skills. Based on a controlled experiment in 109 French schools from deprived areas, we do find that taste for reading is significantly improved. However, there is no indication that this translates into higher reading skills, neither during the program year, nor during the next year.
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Auteur(s) |
Dominique Goux
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, Marc Gurgand
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, Eric Maurin
3, 4
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CREST -
Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique
( 2579 )
- 5, Avenue Henry Le Chatelier, 91120 Palaiseau
- France
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UCL -
Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain
( 92863 )
- Place de l'Université 1 - 1348 Louvain-La-Neuve
- Belgique
3
PJSE -
Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques
( 1171428 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
4
PSE -
Paris School of Economics
( 301309 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Nom de la revue |
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Comité de lecture |
Oui
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Audience |
Internationale
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Date de publication |
2017-04
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Volume |
45
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Page/Identifiant |
17-25
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DOI | 10.1016/j.labeco.2016.09.007 |
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