Term
Summer 8-9-2016
Capstone
Thesis
Degree Name
MAESL
Primary Advisor/Dissertation Chair
Elizabeth Will
Secondary Advisor/Reader One
Mary Diaz
Peer-Reviewer/Reader Two
Michele Brown
Abstract
Despite funding from multiple sources, many upper elementary English Learners (ELs) in Minnesota struggle to reach grade level reading proficiency. This study examined the relationship between academic reading self-efficacy and improvement on two reading standardized tests taken annually at the school. Participants were 21 fourth and fifth grade intermediate or advanced ELs in a Midwestern town. Participants’ responses to a sixquestion Likert-style self-efficacy and reading survey were compared to two years’ worth of WIDA ACCESS and NWEA MAP reading data. Results indicated that students with lower reading proficiency had a greater standard deviation between their reading test score improvement and self-efficacy responses. Results also showed that increases in WIDA ACCESS reading scores positively correlated with self-efficacy responses, but NWEA Map reading scores negatively correlated with self-efficacy responses.
Research Methodology
Survey
Keywords
ESL/ ELLs, Motivation
Recommended Citation
Sefkow, Daniel Patrick, "The Relationship Between Self-efficacy and Reading Test Score Improvement in Elementary English Learners" (2016). School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations. 4178.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/hse_all/4178