New journal article in Reading Research Quarterly published
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The study investigates to what extent different text characteristics (text genre, gender-typed topic, gender of the main characters) and students’ gender are systematically related to elementary students’ text-based interest. Using experimentally varied texts, significant differences in students’ text-based interests were found depending on the text genre and topic of the text. Moreover, gender disparities based on the text topic and protagonists’ gender were significant. The results underscore the relevance of text- and person-related characteristics for elementary students’ interest in texts.
Lepper, C., Stang, J. & McElvany, N. (2021). Gender Differences in Text-Based Interest: Text Characteristics as Underlying Variables. Reading Research Quarterly. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.420