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Basarkod, Geetanjali; Marsh, Herbert W.; Guo, Jiesi; Dicke, Theresa; Xu, Kate; Parker, Philip D. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
Purpose: Past research shows the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect (BFLPE; negative effect of school-average achievement on student-level academic self-concept) to generalize across countries. However, such evidence is largely limited to math and science. Given that reading self-concept is highly differentiated from math and science self-concepts and…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Self Concept, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
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Carretti, Barbara; Cornoldi, Cesare; Antonello, Arianna; Di Criscienzo, Laura; Toffalini, Enrico – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
The study examines whether the average performance of the population with dyslexia in a working memory measure can be inferred dimensionally from the characteristics of the typical population. Specifically, we focused on Associative Phonological Working Memory (APWM), an ability that we predicted being impaired in dyslexia due to the relationship…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Short Term Memory, Reading Ability, Associative Learning