participate in the project.
2) At least one member of the project team introduced
the project briefly in the classrooms of the volunteer
teachers, and the students who volunteered to
participate in the project were identified. Envelopes
containing parental consent forms and demographic
information forms were distributed to these students
to participate in the project. Students whose parents
signed the consent forms and completed the
demographics information forms were asked to
deliver their envelopes to their class teachers or
guidance counselors.
3) The test administrations were started immediately
with the students whose parental consent forms had
been received. The test administration consisted of
completing
the
student
information
in
the
administrator form, and the student was asked to
follow the process by reading the instructions. The
student started reading with the “begin” command for
each text and the test administrator from the project
team measured their reading time using a stopwatch.
In addition, the entire test process was recorded on a
digital voice recorder.
4) After each reading text, the test administrator read
the comprehension questions out loud and the student
was asked to provide the answer.
5) During the test, the reading rate/time (in seconds),
the number of reading errors, and the comprehension
score (one point for each correct answer, for each
reading text) were noted on the administrator form. If
the number of reading errors in the text was 10 or
more in two consecutive texts, the student was
stopped and the test was terminated. Otherwise,
students continued reading until the last text in the
test.
Participants
According to the results of the demographics
information form, the test was administered in nine
schools and 601 students completed the test. The
school information of the students is provided in
Table 1.
Table 1 Participating schools
School type
Province
N %
Primary school #1
Eskişehir
90
15.0
Primary school #2
Eskişehir
76
12.6
Primary school #3
Eskişehir
38
6.3
Middle school #1
Eskişehir
48
8.0
Primary school #4
Trabzon
95
15.8
Primary school #5
Trabzon
149
24.8
Middle school #2
İstanbul
24
4.0
Middle school #3
İstanbul
17
2.8
Middle school #4
İstanbul
64
10.6
When the characteristics of the students