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Powell, Daisy; Plaut, David; Funnell, Elaine – Journal of Research in Reading, 2006
The Plaut, McClelland, Seidenberg and Patterson (1996) connectionist model of reading was evaluated at two points early in its training against reading data collected from British children on two occasions during their first year of literacy instruction. First, the network's non-word reading was poor relative to word reading when compared with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Reading, Models, Instructional Effectiveness
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Conlon, Elizabeth G.; Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J.; Creed, Peter A.; Tucker, Melinda – Journal of Research in Reading, 2006
This study evaluated a model of reading skills among early adolescents (N=174). Measures of family history, achievement, cognitive processes and self-perceptions of abilities were obtained. Significant relationships were found between family history and children's single-word reading skills, spelling, reading comprehension, orthographic processing…
Descriptors: Genealogy, Cognitive Ability, Early Adolescents, Reading Skills