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Time-Constrained Functional Connectivity Analysis of Cortical Networks Underlying Phonological Decoding in Typically Developing School-Aged Children: A Magnetoencephalography Study
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Simos, Panagiotis G.; Rezaie, Roozbeh; Fletcher, Jack M.; Papanicolaou, Andrew C. – Brain and Language, 2013
The study investigated functional associations between left hemisphere occipitotemporal, temporoparietal, and inferior frontal regions during oral pseudoword reading in 58 school-aged children with typical reading skills (aged 10.4 [plus or minus] 1.6, range 7.5-12.5 years). Event-related neuromagnetic data were used to compute source-current…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Reading Difficulties, Oral Reading
The Effect of Reading Duration on the Reliability and Validity of Middle School Students' ORF Performance
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Barth, Amy E.; Stuebing, Karla K.; Fletcher, Jack M.; Denton, Carolyn A.; Vaughn, Sharon; Francis, David – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2014
We evaluated the technical adequacy of oral reading fluency (ORF) probes in which 1,472 middle school students with and without reading difficulties read fluency probes for 60 s versus reading the full passage. Results suggested that the reliability of 60-s probes (rs = 0.75) was not substantively different than full passage probes (rs = 0.77)…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Fluency, Reading Tests, Reading Difficulties
The Effects of Student and Text Characteristics on the Oral Reading Fluency of Middle-Grade Students
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Barth, Amy E.; Tolar, Tammy D.; Fletcher, Jack M.; Francis, David – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
We evaluated the effects of student characteristics (sight word reading efficiency, phonological decoding, verbal knowledge, level of reading ability, grade, gender) and text features (passage difficulty, length, genre, and language and discourse attributes) on the oral reading fluency of a sample of middle-school students in Grades 6-8 (N =…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Middle School Students, Reading Difficulties
An Experimental Study of Scheduling and Duration of "Tier 2" First-Grade Reading Intervention
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Denton, Carolyn A.; Cirino, Paul T.; Barth, Amy E.; Romain, Melissa; Vaughn, Sharon; Wexler, Jade; Francis, David J.; Fletcher, Jack M. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
This study compared the effects on reading outcomes of delivering supplemental, small-group intervention to first-grade students at risk for reading difficulties randomly assigned to one of three different treatment schedules: extended (4 sessions per week, 16 weeks; n = 66), concentrated (4 sessions per week, 8 weeks; n = 64), or distributed (2…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Reading Fluency, At Risk Students
Effects of Accommodations on High-Stakes Testing for Students with Reading Disabilities
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Fletcher, Jack M.; Francis, David J.; Boudosquie, Amy; Copeland, Kim; Young, Victoria; Kalinowski, Sharon; Vaughn, Sharon – Exceptional Children, 2006
The interaction hypothesis proposes that valid test accommodations benefit only those with disabilities. To evaluate this hypothesis, Grade 3 students with word decoding difficulties identified with dyslexia and average decoders were randomly assigned to take the same version of the Texas reading accountability assessment under accommodated and…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Reading Difficulties, Interaction, Oral Reading