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Processing Demands of Reading Comprehension Tests in Young Readers
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Kendeou, Panayiota; Papadopoulos, Timothy C.; Spanoudis, George – Learning and Instruction, 2012
In the present study we examined the processing demands of three reading comprehension tests, namely the Woodcock-Johnson Passage Comprehension (WJPC), a Curriculum-Based Measure test (CBM-Maze), and a Recall test, in the early elementary years. Our investigation was theoretically motivated by Perfetti's Verbal Efficiency Theory and examined the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Early Reading, Short Term Memory
Investigating the Double-Deficit Hypothesis in Greek: Findings from a Longitudinal Study
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Papadopoulos, Timothy C.; Georgiou, George K.; Kendeou, Panayiota – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2009
This study examined longitudinally the double-deficit hypothesis in Greek, an orthographically consistent language, following a group of children from kindergarten to Grade 2. Four groups were formed on the basis of two composite scores of phonological and naming-speed criterion measures: a double-deficit group (DD; n = 17), a phonological deficit…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency, Decoding (Reading)