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Reading Component Skills of Learners in Adult Basic Education
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MacArthur, Charles A.; Konold, Timothy R.; Glutting, Joseph J.; Alamprese, Judith A. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
The purposes of this study were to investigate the reliability and construct validity of measures of reading component skills with a sample of adult basic education (ABE) learners, including both native and nonnative English speakers, and to describe the performance of those learners on the measures. Investigation of measures of reading components…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Construct Validity, Validity, Adult Basic Education
Subtyping of Children with Developmental Dyslexia via Bootstrap Aggregated Clustering and the Gap Statistic: Comparison with the Double-Deficit Hypothesis
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King, Wayne M.; Giess, Sally A.; Lombardino, Linda J. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2007
Background: The marked degree of heterogeneity in persons with developmental dyslexia has motivated the investigation of possible subtypes. Attempts have proceeded both from theoretical models of reading and the application of unsupervised learning (clustering) methods. Previous cluster analyses of data obtained from persons with reading…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Reading Difficulties, Models, Databases