title: Reading comprehension among graduate students.
abstract: The present purpose was to examine graduate students' reading comprehension and reading vocabulary by comparing their scores on a standardized reading rest with scores obtained by a large normative sample of undergraduates. Participants were 59 graduate students from various disciplines, enrolled in three sections of an introductory educational research course at a southeastern university. These students were administered the Nelson-Denny Reading Test-Form G. Analysis showed these students had higher scores on the reading comprehension portion than did the normative sample of 5,000 undergraduate students from 38 institutions (Cohen d=.71). Also, the graduate students' scores on the reading vocabulary portion were higher (d=.45).
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies, School of Education, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA. tonyonwuegbuzie@aol.com
authors.forename: Anthony J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Onwuegbuzie
authors.forename: Kathleen M T
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Collins
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D003071:Cognition; D004500:Education, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D011932:Reading; D013334:Students