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Yi-Jui I. Chen; Yi-Jhen Wu; Yi-Hsin Chen; Robin Irey – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2025
A short form of the 60-item computer-based orthographic processing assessment (long-form COPA or COPA-LF) was developed. The COPA-LF consists of five skills, including rapid perception, access, differentiation, correction, and arrangement. Thirty items from the COPA-LF were selected for the short-form COPA (COPA-SF) based on cognitive diagnostic…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Test Length, Test Validity, Orthographic Symbols
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Chen, Yi-Jui I.; Chen, Yi-Hsin; Anthony, Jason L.; Erazo, Noé A. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2022
The Computer-based Orthographic Processing Assessment (COPA) is a newly developed assessment to measure orthographic processing skills, including rapid perception, access, differentiation, correction, and arrangement. In this study, cognitive diagnostic models were used to test if the dimensionality of the COPA conforms to theoretical expectation,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Computer Assisted Testing, Orthographic Symbols
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Chen, Yi-Jui Iva; Wilson, Mark; Irey, Robin C.; Requa, Mary K. – Language Testing, 2020
Orthographic processing -- the ability to perceive, access, differentiate, and manipulate orthographic knowledge -- is essential when learning to recognize words. Despite its critical importance in literacy acquisition, the field lacks a tool to assess this essential cognitive ability. The goal of this study was to design a computer-based…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Spelling, Word Recognition, Reading Skills
HANNA, PAUL R.; AND OTHERS – 1965
AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO REPEAT, WITH REFINEMENTS, THE RESEARCH DESIGN OF THE HANNA-MOORE STUDY (1953) CONCERNING PHONEME-GRAPHEME RELATIONSHIPS. OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE--(1) TO EXAMINE THE SOUND-TO-LETTER CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EXTENDED LIST OF 10,000 WORDS, (2) TO DISCOVER TO WHAT DEGREE THE SAME 80 PERCENT CRITERION OF PHONEME-TO-GRAPHEME…
Descriptors: English, Linguistics, Orthographic Symbols, Phonetic Analysis
CROTHERS, EDWARD; AND OTHERS – 1963
THE USE OF PHONEMIC TRANSCRIPTION IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING WAS INVESTIGATED, SPECIFICALLY AS TRANSCRIPTION FACILITATES AUDITORY-VISUAL RECOGNITION OF RUSSIAN SOUNDS AND SCRIPT. PHONEMIC TRANSCRIPTION SERVED IN THIS STUDY AS THE MEDIATING AGENT BETWEEN RUSSIAN SOUNDS AND CYRILLIC SCRIPT. THE LEARNING PROCESS WAS SET UP ON A MEDIATION CHAIN OF…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Experimental Programs, Language Instruction, Learning Processes
Robinson, Byrl Elmer – 1969
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of the initial teaching alphabet (ITA) would have a beneficial effect upon English language learning when used with adult Spanish speaking students. The study consisted of five randomly selected English as a Second Language classes in the Los Angeles City Unified School District divided…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Conventional Instruction, Doctoral Dissertations, English (Second Language)
LEWIS, EDWARD R. – 1964
BRITISH EXPERIMENTAL USAGE OF INITIAL TEACHING ALPHABET (ITA) MATERIALS AND PROCEDURES FOR INSTRUCTION OF READING DISABILITY CASES WAS STUDIED TO DETERMINE IF ITA METHODS AND MATERIALS COULD BE SIMILARLY USED IN A SAN JOSE READING CLINIC. THE INVESTIGATOR MADE OBSERVATIONS IN ENGLAND OF QUALITY, FORMAT, CONCEPTS, AND USE OF LANGUAGE IN THE ITA…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
Rowe, Deborah Wells, Ed.; Jimenez, Robert T., Ed.; Compton, Donald L., Ed.; Dickinson, David K., Ed.; Kim, Youb, Ed.; Leander, Kevin M., Ed.; Risko, Victoria J., Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2007
This publication offers the 56th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (NRC). This Yearbook begins with a preface and presents profiles of three awardees, Michael C. McKenna, Douglas K. Hartman, and Michael Kamil. Included in this Yearbook are the following papers: (1) What's It All About? Literacy Research and Civic Responsibility (Victoria…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Curriculum Development, Literacy, Popular Culture