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Yang, Ling-Yan; Guo, Jian-Peng; Richman, Lynn C.; Schmidt, Frank L.; Gerken, Kathryn C.; Ding, Yi – Educational Psychology Review, 2013
This paper used meta-analysis to synthesize the relation between visual skills and Chinese reading acquisition based on the empirical results from 34 studies published from 1991 to 2011. We obtained 234 correlation coefficients from 64 independent samples, with a total of 5,395 participants. The meta-analysis revealed that visual skills as a…
Descriptors: Memory, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Correlation
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Tyrrell, Ruth; And Others – Journal of Research in Reading, 1995
States that 46 children aged 12-16 were shown a page of meaningless text covered with plastic overlays, including 7 that were various colors and 1 that was clear. Explains that each child selected the overlay that made reading easiest. Notes that children who read with a colored overlay complained of visual discomfort when they read without the…
Descriptors: Color, Foreign Countries, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement
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Grant, David W. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Thirty nine 11-year-old children were given the same unilateral word-naming task on two separate occasions. A test-retest reliability of .46 was a function of both reading ability and sex. (Author)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Reading Ability, Reading Research