Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 0 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 5 |
Descriptor
Source
| Scientific Studies of Reading | 3 |
| Journal of Experimental Child… | 2 |
| Australian Journal of… | 1 |
| Developmental Psychology | 1 |
| Journal of Abnormal Child… | 1 |
| Reading and Writing: An… | 1 |
Author
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 9 |
| Reports - Research | 7 |
| Opinion Papers | 1 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
Education Level
| Early Childhood Education | 1 |
| Elementary Education | 1 |
| Grade 3 | 1 |
| Primary Education | 1 |
Audience
| Practitioners | 1 |
| Researchers | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| Gray Oral Reading Test | 2 |
| Peabody Individual… | 2 |
| National Assessment Program… | 1 |
| Test of Word Reading… | 1 |
| Woodcock Johnson Tests of… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
| Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 1 |
Direct linkGrasby, Katrina L.; Byrne, Brian; Olson, Richard K. – Australian Journal of Education, 2015
Each year, all Australian students in grades 3, 5, 7 and 9 sit nationwide large-scale tests in literacy and numeracy which have their validity frequently questioned. We compared the performance of grade 3 twins on these large-scale reading tests with their performance on three individually administered literacy tests in comprehension, word reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Competency Tests, Numeracy, Literacy
Miller, Amanda C.; Keenan, Janice M.; Betjemann, Rebecca S.; Willcutt, Erik G.; Pennington, Bruce F.; Olson, Richard K. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2013
We examined reading comprehension in children with ADHD by assessing their ability to build a coherent mental representation that allows them to recall central and peripheral information. We compared children with ADHD (mean age 9.78) to word reading-matched controls (mean age 9.89) on their ability to retell a passage. We found that even though…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Short Term Memory, Reading Ability, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Betjemann, Rebecca S.; Keenan, Janice M.; Olson, Richard K.; DeFries, John C. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2011
Does the choice of test for assessing reading comprehension influence the outcome of genetic analyses? A twin design compared two types of reading comprehension tests classified as primarily associated with word decoding (RC-D) or listening comprehension (RC-LC). For both types of tests, the overall genetic influence is high and nearly identical.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Siblings, Genetics
Pennington, Bruce F.; McGrath, Lauren M.; Rosenberg, Jenni; Barnard, Holly; Smith, Shelley D.; Willcutt, Erik G.; Friend, Angela; DeFries, John C.; Olson, Richard K. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
This article examines Gene x Environment (G x E) interactions in two comorbid developmental disorders--reading disability (RD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)--as a window on broader issues on G x E interactions in developmental psychology. The authors first briefly review types of G x E interactions, methods for detecting…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Interaction, Developmental Psychology
Keenan, Janice M.; Betjemann, Rebecca S.; Olson, Richard K. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2008
Comprehension tests are often used interchangeably, suggesting an implicit assumption that they are all measuring the same thing. We examine the validity of this assumption by comparing some of the most popular reading comprehension measures used in research and clinical practice in the United States: the Gray Oral Reading Test (GORT), the two…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Age, Oral Reading
Olson, Richard K. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2004
Environment and Genes are often found in the titles of my articles, but this is the first and most likely the last of my titles to include SSSR. This article is based on my presidential address at the 10th annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR) in Boulder, Colorado (2003), so I begin with some reflection on the…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Genetics, Reading Difficulties, Reading Research
Peer reviewedBoada, Richard; Willcutt, Erik G.; Tunick, Rachel A.; Chhabildas, Nomita A.; Olson, Richard K.; DeFries, John C.; Pennington, Bruce F. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2002
Examines the etiology of high reading ability in twin pairs. Suggests that reading ability and its cognitive correlates are on a continuous distribution, with both extremes of the distribution being similarly heritable. Supports the hypothesis that the same cognitive processes that are associated with dyslexia are important for the development of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Etiology
Peer reviewedOlson, Richard K.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1984
Tests the development of phonetic codes in the memory of 141 pairs of normal and disabled readers from 7.8 to 16.8 years of age. The measurement task assessed false-positive errors in recognition memory for foil words that rhymed with words in a memory list versus foil words that did not rhyme. (Author/CI)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedWise, Barbara W.; Ring, Jeremiah; Olson, Richard K. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2000
Compared effects of a computer-assisted remedial reading program providing speech-supported reading in context with or without explicit phonological training. Found that phonologically trained second to fifth graders gained more in phonological skills and untimed word reading than untrained children. Children with more contextual reading gained…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
