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Holahan, John M.; Ferrer, Emilio; Shaywitz, Bennett A.; Rock, Donald A.; Kirsch, Irwin S.; Yamamoto, Kentaro; Michaels, Reissa; Marchione, Karen E.; Shaywitz, Sally E. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
We systematically assessed the relationships between growth of four components of verbal ability--Information, Similarities, Vocabulary, and Comprehension subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale-Revised--and longitudinal growth from Grades 1 to 9 of the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery Passage Comprehension subtest while controlling…
Descriptors: Student Development, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Verbal Ability
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Sideridis, Georgios D. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2016
The purpose of the present studies was to test the hypothesis that the psychometric characteristics of ability scales may be significantly distorted if one accounts for emotional factors during test taking. Specifically, the present studies evaluate the effects of anxiety and motivation on the item difficulties of the Rasch model. In Study 1, the…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Test Validity, Measures (Individuals), Hierarchical Linear Modeling
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van Silfhout, Gerdineke; Evers-Vermeul, Jacqueline; Sanders, Ted – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2015
Many young readers fail to construct a proper mental text representation, often due to a lack of higher-order skills such as making integrative and inferential links. In an eye-tracking experiment among 141 Dutch eighth graders, we tested whether coherence markers (moreover, after, because) improve students' online processing and their off-line…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Eye Movements, Grade 8
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Schroeder, Sascha – Journal of Research in Reading, 2013
Many low-skill readers have problems with visual word recognition. In particular, low-skill readers show a substantial nonword reading deficit that is attributed to deficits in sub-lexical processing. In this study, I examined whether the nonword deficits of German 14-year-old low-skill readers were associated with inefficient use of multi-letter…
Descriptors: German, Reading, Reading Skills, Reading Difficulties
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Braten, Ivar; Anmarkrud, Oistein – Journal of Research in Reading, 2013
The present study examined whether observed differences in naturally occurring classroom instruction of reading comprehension strategies were reflected in students' independent use of strategies to comprehend expository text. Based on a descriptive classroom study in 4 ninth-grade language arts classrooms, participants were divided into two groups…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Grade 9, Language Arts, Reading Strategies
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Arya, Diana J.; McClung, Nicola A.; Katznelson, Noah; Scott, Lyn – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2016
Social psychologists have suggested that language-based ideologies related to "stereotype threat" (i.e. variations in performance-based on ability perceptions of language groups) may affect students' academic achievement regardless of school language support. However, it is unclear whether efforts to support students' first language…
Descriptors: Social Psychology, Language Attitudes, Stereotypes, Achievement Tests