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Peer reviewedLockhead, G. R.; Crist, W. B. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
Small graphic changes made in normal letters of the alphabet changed the similarity relations among those letters. Children and adults classified letters of this distinctive font faster and with fewer errors than they did normal letters. Relations between letters in the stimulus set determined how difficult any particular letter was to classify.…
Descriptors: Contrast, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Letters (Alphabet)
Peer reviewedStahl, Steven A.; Murray, Bruce A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1994
One hundred thirteen kindergartners and first graders completed phonological awareness (PA) tasks designed to separate task difficulty from linguistic complexity. Comparison of these results with measures of early literacy suggests that PA measured by differences in linguistic complexity seems more closely related to the single factor on which…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Difficulty Level, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading
