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Sun, Ting; Wang, Chuang; Kim, Stella Yun – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
This study provided validity evidence of the Questionnaire of English Writing Self-Efficacy (QEWSE) based on the five sources of validity evidence described in the "Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing" (AERA, APA, & NCME, 2014). Items of this measure demonstrated close alignment with the linguistic domain and the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Writing Skills, Self Efficacy, Construct Validity
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Jap, Bernard A. J.; Borleffs, Elisabeth; Maassen, Ben A. M. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
With its transparent orthography, Standard Indonesian is spoken by over 160 million inhabitants and is the primary language of instruction in education and the government in Indonesia. An assessment battery of reading and reading-related skills was developed as a starting point for the diagnosis of dyslexia in beginner learners. Founded on the…
Descriptors: Indonesian, Dyslexia, Identification, Phonological Awareness
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Spires, Hiller A.; Kerkhoff, Shea N.; Graham, Abbey C. K.; Thompson, Isaac; Lee, John K. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
The goal of this study was to define the construct and establish the validity of disciplinary literacy, which has recently gained attention from the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers in Common Core State Standards for English…
Descriptors: Validity, Literacy, English, Language Arts
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Grant, Amy; Gottardo, Alexandra; Geva, Esther – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
The validity of two measures of English reading comprehension was examined across three different groups of English language learners (ELLs; 64 Portuguese, 66 Spanish and 65 Cantonese). All three groups were achieving within the average range in second grade. An exploratory principal components analysis of reading skills was carried out to…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Validity, Reading Skills
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MacArthur, Charles A.; Konold, Timothy R.; Glutting, Joseph J.; Alamprese, Judith A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
The purpose of this study was to identify subgroups of adult basic education (ABE) learners with different profiles of skills in the core reading components of decoding, word recognition, spelling, fluency, and comprehension. The analysis uses factor scores of those 5 reading components from on a prior investigation of the reliability and…
Descriptors: Investigations, Learning Disabilities, Construct Validity, Validity
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Hagiliassis, Nick; Pratt, Chris; Johnston, Michael – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
Investigations of reading have focused largely on two component processes, phonological processing and orthographic processing. However, a number of unresolved issues have hampered progress in the investigation of these abilities. Three such issues that formed the focus of the present study were (1) the extent to which tasks used to operationalize…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Orthographic Symbols, Factor Analysis, Task Analysis