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Spencer, Mercedes; Wagner, Richard K.; Petscher, Yaacov – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
The present study examined the reading comprehension and receptive vocabulary skills of children with poor reading comprehension despite adequate decoding using a regression-based matching technique. Participants included five cohorts of children who were identified as typical readers (N = 70,493 - 75,553) or as children with specific reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Development, Reading Difficulties, Decoding (Reading)
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Fitton, Lisa; Hoge, Rachel; Petscher, Yaacov; Wood, Carla – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this study was (a) to examine the underlying components or factor structure of the Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment (BESA; Peña, Gutiérrez-Clellen, Iglesias, Goldstein, & Bedore, 2014) sentence repetition task and (b) to examine the relationship between Spanish-English speaking children's sentence repetition and…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, English
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Foorman, Barbara R.; Koon, Sharon; Petscher, Yaacov; Mitchell, Alison; Truckenmiller, Adrea – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
The objective of this study was to explore dimensions of oral language and reading and their influence on reading comprehension in a relatively understudied population--adolescent readers in 4th through 10th grades. The current study employed latent variable modeling of decoding fluency, vocabulary, syntax, and reading comprehension so as to…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Oral Reading, Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading)