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Arnold, Sharon; Reed, Phil – British Journal of Special Education, 2016
Schools have an obligation to assess the literacy skills of their students, and the provision of reading instruction to students includes the ability to measure progress in this area. However, the design of reading tests includes the ability not only to read words, but also the ability to verbalise them. This presents a particular challenge for…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Summative Evaluation, Special Education, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Tobia, Valentina; Bonifacci, Paola – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
Comprehension is the ultimate goal of reading, but it is a very complex task consisting of multiple component skills. A number of studies have tested the simple view of reading (SVR; Gough & Tunmer, 1986) in opaque languages, but few investigations of the SVR components have been conducted on transparent languages. In the present study, we…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Orthographic Symbols, Oral Language, Oral Reading
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Rakhlin, Natalia; Cardoso-Martins, Cláudia; Grigorenko, Elena L. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2014
We studied the relationship between rapid serial naming (RSN) and orthographic processing in Russian, an asymmetrically transparent orthography. Ninety-six students (M age = 13.73) completed tests of word and pseudoword reading fluency, spelling, orthographic choice, phonological choice, phoneme awareness (PA), and RSN. PA was a better predictor…
Descriptors: Phonemic Awareness, Naming, Orthographic Symbols, Russian
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Stothers, Margot; Klein, Perry D. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2010
It is not clear from research whether, or to what extent, reading comprehension is impaired in adults who have learning disabilities (LD). The influence of perceptual organization (PO) and phonological awareness (PA) on reading comprehension was investigated. PO and PA are cognitive functions that have been examined in previous research for their…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Stimuli, Learning Disabilities, Reading Tests