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Bazan, Bartolo – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2021
In this study, I sought to investigate whether visuospatial working memory (VWM) explains individual differences in reading fluency growth. One hundred and thirty Japanese junior and senior high school students were administered the Mr. Peanut and reversed Corsi tasks, respectively as measures of VWM, followed by three waves of reading fluency…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Short Term Memory, Reading Fluency, Reading Rate
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Goldhammer, Frank; Kroehne, Ulf; Hahnel, Carolin; De Boeck, Paul – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Efficiency in reading component skills is crucial for reading comprehension, as efficient subprocesses do not extensively consume limited cognitive resources, making them available for comprehension processes. Cognitive efficiency is typically measured with speeded tests of relatively easy items. Observed responses and response times indicate the…
Descriptors: Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Ability, Reading Tests
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Tonekaboni, Fateme Roohani; Ravand, Hamdollah; Rezvani, Reza – International Journal of Language Testing, 2021
Investigating the processes underlying test performance is a major source of data supporting the explanation inference in the validity argument (Chappelle, 2021). One way of modeling the cognitive processes underlying test performance is by constructing a Q-matrix, which is essentially about summarizing the attributes explaining test-takers'…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, High Stakes Tests, Inferences