Background knowledge and reading comprehension in first grade students at Andrés Avelino Cáceres High School, Collique, Comas, 2013

Abstract

This work, had as the main goal to establish a relationship between background knowledge and reading comprehension in first grade students at Andrés Avelino Caceres High School, in Collique, Comas, 2013.The general hypothesis proposed that background knowledge is significantly related to reading comprehension in first grade students at Andrés Avelino Caceres High School, Collique, Comas, 2013. It is a substantive research in its variety of descriptive research with a correlational design. Its population and sample was made up of 80 high school students at Andrés Avelino Caceres High School. The techniques used were the survey, documentary analysis, expert judgment, and application. Also we used as instruments a Likert scale questionnaire, score register of students’ grades, and the expert opinion tab among others. After the hypothesis testing, the alternative hypothesis was found to be true, confirming that background knowledge is significantly related to reading comprehension in students of the sample with a significance level of 0,05.