IFS at 26th annual SSSR meeting in Toronto

The IFS took part in the 26th annual SSSR meeting with a talk about the importance of reading motivation and self-concept for the gender gap in reading digitally. According to the session „Tell me something good: Current and ongoing effects of positive literacy environments“, Franziska Schwabe presented a recent study with fourth graders that showed that small gender differences exist for reading digitally and that intrinsic reading motivation is an important mediator in the context of reading digitally.

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