The Reader Self-Perception Scale (RSPS): A New Tool for Measuring How Children Feel about Themselves as Readers.

Recently, reading educators and re searchers have shown renewed interest in how affective factors influence chil dren's academic achievement and behavior (Alvermann & Guthrie, 1993). As a result, our longheld intuitions about the powerful impact that attitudes, values, beliefs, desires, and mo tivations exert on literacy learning have begun to receive the focused attention they deserve. Because of research in the affective do