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Ivar Bråten; Ymkje E. Haverkamp; Øistein Anmarkrud – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
The deep cloze test was developed by Jensen and Elbro (Read Writ Interdiscip J 35(5):1221-1237, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-021-10230-w) to assess reading comprehension at the level of global situational understanding. In two independent studies, we examined potential contributors to students' scores on the deep cloze reading…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Scores
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Florit, Elena; De Carli, Pietro; Rodà, Antonio; Domenicale, Samantha; Mason, Lucia – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Research on text comprehension in relation to the reading medium (paper or screen) has mainly involved undergraduate or high school students. To advance current knowledge on the effects of reading medium, this longitudinal study focused on beginner readers, specifically, the role of precursors in first graders' comprehension of narrative and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Reading Comprehension, Printed Materials
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Welcome, Suzanne E.; Meza, Rebecca A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The Adult Reading History Questionnaire (ARHQ; Lefly & Pennington, 2000) is a widely used measure of self-reported reading difficulties. We explored the factor structure underlying this questionnaire using both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. A six-factor solution emerged, with childhood reading ability, current reading attitude,…
Descriptors: Adults, Questionnaires, Reading Difficulties, Factor Structure
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Vekaria, Pooja C.; Peverly, Stephen T. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine if there were differences in note-taking and test-taking in students with and without ADHD, and if there were, to examine the cognitive variables that might explain them. Participants included 22 postsecondary students with self-reported ADHD and 50 postsecondary student controls. Students…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, College Students, Lecture Method, Notetaking
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Schaars, Moniek M.; Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
The present longitudinal study aimed to investigate the development of word decoding skills during incremental phonics instruction in Dutch as a transparent orthography. A representative sample of 973 Dutch children in the first grade (M[subscript age] = 6;1, SD = 0;5) was exposed to incremental subsets of Dutch grapheme-phoneme correspondences…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Phonics, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction
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Partanen, Marita; Siegel, Linda S. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
This study examined the longitudinal effects of an early literacy intervention in Kindergarten. A group of children completed reading and cognitive measures between Kindergarten (5-6 years old) and Grade 7 (12-13 years old). Our results showed that 22% of children were identified as at-risk for reading deficits in Kindergarten, but only 6% of…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Early Intervention, Literacy Education, Kindergarten