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Mo, Ya; Troia, Gary A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
This study examines the relationship between students' demographic background and their experiences with writing at school, the alignment between state and National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) direct writing assessments, and students' NAEP writing performance. The study utilizes primary data collection via content analysis of writing…
Descriptors: Prediction, National Competency Tests, Gender Differences, Ethnicity
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Groth, Katarina; Lachmann, Thomas; Riecker, Axel; Muthmann, Irene; Steinbrink, Claudia – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
The present study investigated auditory temporal processing in developmental dyslexia by using a vowel length discrimination task. Both temporal and phonological processing were studied in a single experiment. Seven German vowel pairs differing in vowel height were used. The vowels of each pair differed only with respect to vowel length (e.g., /a/…
Descriptors: Vowels, Phonology, Dyslexia, German
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Jimenez, Juan E.; de la Cadena, Claudia Garcia; Siegel, Linda S.; O'Shanahan, Isabel; Garcia, Eduardo; Rodriguez, Cristina – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
The purpose of this study was to analyze possible gender-related differences in the prevalence of dyslexia. A cross-national comparison of Spain and Guatemala was conducted. Both countries speak the same language but have a different standard of living and educational level. A second purpose of this study was to analyze the cognitive profile of…
Descriptors: Females, Dyslexia, Living Standards, Foreign Countries