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Liset Rouweler; Ben Maassen; Sanne Oud; Barry de Groot; Wim Tops – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2025
Reading is one of the most important skills in higher education. Various students show problems with reading, which can lead to problems with text decoding, reading comprehension, or both. In this study, we investigate the L1 (Dutch) and L2 (English) reading comprehension performance of students with and without dyslexia. Participants were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Second Languages, Reading Comprehension
Theobald, Roddy J.; Goldhaber, Dan D.; Holden, Kristian L.; Stein, Marcy L. – Exceptional Children, 2022
We used survey and administrative data from Washington State to assess the degree to which special education teacher preparation, district literacy instructional practices, and the alignment between preparation and practice were associated with the reading test score gains of students with high-incidence disabilities taught by early-career special…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Literacy Education, Reading Instruction
Theobald, Roddy J.; Goldhaber, Dan D.; Holden, Kristian L.; Stein, Marcy L. – Grantee Submission, 2022
We used survey and administrative data from Washington State to assess the degree to which special education teacher preparation, district literacy instructional practices, and the alignment between preparation and practice were associated with the reading test score gains of students with high-incidence disabilities taught by early-career special…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Literacy Education, Reading Instruction
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Spenceley, Laura M.; Wood, Whitney L. M.; Valentino, Marisa; Lewandowski, Lawrence J. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
This study investigated the extent to which standardized reading performance, individual perceptions of reading and test taking skills, and test anxiety predict the amount of extended time needed to equalize test access for college students with disabilities. Thirty-seven college students with a specific learning disorder (LD) and/or an attention…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Test Anxiety, Self Efficacy, Predictor Variables
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Krach, S. Kathleen; McCreery, Michael P.; Loe, Scott A.; Jones, W. Paul – Reading Psychology, 2016
Previous research demonstrates specific relationships between personality traits and general academic performance. In addition, research studies have demonstrated relationships among personality and variables related to reading fluency (i.e. speed, accuracy, automaticity, and prosody). However, little investigation has examined specific links…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, Correlation, Reading Fluency
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Lovett, Benjamin J.; Lewandowski, Lawrence J.; Potts, Heather E. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2017
Students often feel time pressure when taking tests, and students with disabilities are sometimes given extended time testing accommodations, but little research has been done on the factors that affect students' test-taking speed. In the present study, 253 students at two colleges completed measures of processing speed, reading fluency, and…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Test Wiseness, Reading Skills, Standardized Tests
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Jiang, Xiangying – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2016
This study discusses the construct of oral reading fluency and examines its relationship to reading comprehension among adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners of four first language (L1) backgrounds. One hundred and forty-nine adult learners of English with Arabic, Japanese, Spanish and Chinese language backgrounds participated in this…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Seok, Soonhwa; DaCosta, Boaventura – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2014
This research investigated oral reading fluency as a predictor of silent reading fluency at the secondary and postsecondary levels. Several measures were used, including the Gray Oral Reading Test, the Test of Silent Word Reading Fluency, the Test of Silent Contextual Reading Fluency, and the Reading Observation Scale. A total of 223 students…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Predictor Variables, Silent Reading
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Wallot, Sebastian; O'Brien, Beth A.; Haussmann, Anna; Kloos, Heidi; Lyby, Marlene S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Reading speed is commonly used as an index of reading fluency. However, reading speed is not a consistent predictor of text comprehension, when speed and comprehension are measured on the same text within the same reader. This might be due to the somewhat ambiguous nature of reading speed, which is sometimes regarded as a feature of the reading…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes