Home⇛Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives⇛vol. 3 no. 12 (2025)

The Reading Attitudes of Grade 12 Students Along Multiple Dimensions

Kevin Neil S. Daylo

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

Reading attitudes play a key role in literacy development, yet little is known about how senior high school students view different reading purposes and media. This study investigated the attitudes of Grade 12 public school students toward both academic and recreational reading, utilizing print and digital texts. Specifically, it compared their attitudes across four types of reading: academic print (AP), academic digital (AD), recreational print (RP), and recreational digital (RD). A total of 85 students answered the Survey of Adolescent Reading Attitudes (SARA), and their subscale scores were analyzed using means, standard deviations, and independent sample t-tests to determine significant differences between paired categories (AP vs. AD, RP vs. RD, AP vs. RP, AD vs. RD). Results showed that students generally had positive attitudes toward all four types of reading, with the least positive attitude observed in academic print reading. Significant differences were found in several comparisons, particularly between AP and AD, AP and RP, and AD and RD. Although the participants experienced online distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the findings remain relevant for both online and face-to-face settings. These results suggest that schools should monitor and support students’ reading attitudes to sustain and improve their engagement across different reading contexts.



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