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Carioti, Desiré; Stucchi, Natale Adolfo; Toneatto, Carlo; Masia, Marta Franca; Del Monte, Milena; Stefanelli, Silvia; Travellini, Simona; Marcelli, Antonella; Tettamanti, Marco; Vernice, Mirta; Guasti, Maria Teresa; Berlingeri, Manuela – Annals of Dyslexia, 2023
In this study, we validated the "ReadFree tool", a computerised battery of 12 visual and auditory tasks developed to identify poor readers also in minority-language children (MLC). We tested the task-specific discriminant power on 142 Italian-monolingual participants (8-13 years old) divided into monolingual poor readers (N = 37) and…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Task Analysis, Italian, Monolingualism
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Sinclair, Jeanne; Jang, Eunice Eunhee; Rudzicz, Frank – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Advances in machine learning (ML) are poised to contribute to our understanding of the linguistic processes associated with successful reading comprehension, which is a critical aspect of children's educational success. We used ML techniques to investigate and compare associations between children's reading comprehension and 260 linguistic…
Descriptors: Prediction, Reading Comprehension, Natural Language Processing, Speech Communication
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Debeer, Dries; Janssen, Rianne; De Boeck, Paul – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2017
When dealing with missing responses, two types of omissions can be discerned: items can be skipped or not reached by the test taker. When the occurrence of these omissions is related to the proficiency process the missingness is nonignorable. The purpose of this article is to present a tree-based IRT framework for modeling responses and omissions…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Items, Responses, Testing Problems