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Lundetrae, Kjersti; Thomson, Jenny M. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Rhythm plays an organisational role in the prosody and phonology of language, and children with literacy difficulties have been found to demonstrate poor rhythmic perception. This study explored whether students' performance on a simple rhythm task at school entry could serve as a predictor of whether they would face difficulties in word reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Beginning Reading
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Petscher, Yaacov; Mitchell, Alison M.; Foorman, Barbara R. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
A growing body of literature suggests that response latency, the amount of time it takes an individual to respond to an item, may be an important factor to consider when using assessment data to estimate the ability of an individual. Considering that tests of passage and list fluency are being adapted to a computer administration format, it is…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Vocabulary, Item Response Theory, Reliability