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Reading Competence Development of Poor Readers in a German Elementary School Sample: An Empirical Examination of the Matthew Effect Model
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Pfost, Maximilian; Dorfler, Tobias; Artelt, Cordula – Journal of Research in Reading, 2012
According to the Matthew effect model, interindividual differences in reading competence between poor and normal readers should become wider as students grow older. The second part of the model assumes that these differential pathways are mainly attributable to differential reading activities. The purpose of this study is to examine whether both…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4
Cattell-Horn-Carroll Cognitive Abilities and Their Effects on Reading Decoding Skills: g Has Indirect Effects, More Specific Abilities Have Direct Effects
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Floyd, Randy G.; Keith, Timothy Z.; Taub, Gordon E.; McGrew, Kevin S. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2007
This study employed structural equation modeling to examine the effects of Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) abilities on reading decoding skills using five age-differentiated subsamples from the standardization sample of the Woodcock-Johnson III (Woodcock, McGrew, & Mather, 2001). Using the Spearman Model including only g, strong direct effects of g on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Structural Equation Models, Short Term Memory, Listening Skills
Phonological Processing and Emergent Literacy in Spanish-speaking Preschool Children
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Anthony, Jason L.; Williams, Jeffrey M., McDonald, Renee; Corbitt-Shindler, Deborah , Carlson, Coleen D.; Francis, David J. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2006
Phonological awareness (PA), phonological memory (PM), and phonological access to lexical storage (also known as RAN), play important roles in acquiring literacy. We examined the convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of these phonological processing abilities (PPAs) in 147 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children whose native language was…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Cognitive Ability, Structural Equation Models, Spanish Speaking
Letter Names, Letter Sounds and Phonological Awareness: An Examination of Kindergarten Children across Letters and of Letters across Children
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Evans, Mary Ann; Bell, Michelle; Shaw, Deborah; Moretti, Shelley; Page, Jodi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
In this study 149 kindergarten children were assessed for knowledge of letter names and letter sounds, phonological awareness, and cognitive abilities. Through this it examined child and letter characteristics influencing the acquisition of alphabetic knowledge in a naturalistic context, the relationship between letter-sound knowledge and…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Kindergarten, Young Children, Alphabets
Development of and Relationship Between Phonological and Motivational Processes and Naming Speed in Predicting Word Recognition in Grade 1
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Lepola, Janne; Poskiparta, Elisa; Laakkonen, Eero; Niemi, Pekka – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2005
In this 2-year longitudinal study the developmental relationships among letter knowledge, phonological awareness, rapid naming, and task orientation were examined, and linguistic-motivational pathways of word reading acquisition were traced from kindergarten to Grade 1 by means of structural equation modeling. The participants were 100…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Prediction, Phonology, Phonemes
An Investigation of the Reliability and Standard Error of Measurement of Words Read Correctly Per Minute Using Curriculum-Based Measurement
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Poncy, Brian C.; Skinner, Christopher H.; Axtell, Philip K. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2005
Generalizability (G) theory was used with a sample of 37 third-grade students to assess the variability in words correct per minute (WCPM) scores caused by student skill and passage variability. Reliability-like coefficients and the SEM based on a specific number of assessments using different combinations of passages demonstrated how manipulating…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Curriculum Based Assessment, Error of Measurement, Reliability