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Are Confidence Ratings Test- or Trait-Driven? Individual Differences among High, Average, and Low Comprehenders in Fourth Grade
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Kasperski, Ronen; Katzir, Tami – Reading Psychology, 2013
The aim of this study was to examine whether low, average, and high comprehenders (LC, AC, and HC, respectively) differed in their reading self-confidence and bias ratings, and whether confidence ratings were driven by reading ability or distributed evenly among diverse readers. Seventy fourth-graders with good decoding abilities were administered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Syntactic Competence and Reading Ability in Children.
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Bentin, Shlomo; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1990
An experiment involving fourth graders examined effects of syntactic context on auditory word identification and ability to detect and correct syntactic errors in speech. Severely disabled readers were inferior to good and poor readers in syntactic awareness and ability to use syntactic rules. (RH)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Context Effect, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
The Characteristics of Young and Adult Dyslexics Readers on Reading and Reading Related Cognitive Tasks as Compared to Normal Readers
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Miller-Shaul, Shelley – Dyslexia, 2005
Most of the research into dyslexia has been carried out among children and has raised the question whether the characteristics of young dyslexics are similar to those of adult dyslexics. The aim of this research was, therefore, to confirm whether the cognitive deficits, which appear among young dyslexics on reading and reading related tasks, are…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Dyslexia, Grade 4, Individual Characteristics