Abstract: The objective of this study is to present the process of adaptation and validation of the German reading comprehension test ELFE II (Lenhard et al., 2017) for Spanish. Both ...
Adaptive Testing of Text Comprehension in Primary School. Development of a CAT-Optimized Item PoolAbstract. The present study describes the construction and calibration of a text comprehension item pool for a computer adaptive test (...
Zusammenfassung. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wird über die Entwicklung eines umfassenden Fragebogens zum Leseerleben berichtet. Eine Untersuchung zur Itemselektion anhand einer studentischen Stichprobe ergibt 77 Items, die sich auf die folgenden 14 ...
Automated Reading and Writing: Results on Correlations in Written Language Competencies in Grade 4Abstract:Background: Basic literacy skills are crucial for participation in school and society. While reading skills have ...
Abstract. Two experiments investigated the effect of visual blank space on reading by varying the amount of interletter and interline blank space in prose passages. Increasing interletter blank spacing slowed the reading process overall, presumably ...
Zusammenfassung: In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat sich die Messung und Analyse von Blickbewegungen mehr und mehr zur einer Standardmethode für die Untersuchung des Lesens und der Leseentwicklung im Kindesalter entwickelt. Im vorliegenden Artikel werden ...
The FRAG as a Computerized Diagnostic Test to Assess Visual Word RecognitionAbstract: The computerized word fragmentation test FRAG is commonly used in cognitive psychology to assess perceptual-attentive (bottom-up) and lexical (top-down) processes ...
This report provides an overview of the development and preliminary evaluation of an educational placement screener for use in short-term juvenile detention facilities. The screener is designed to gauge levels of competence in reading (at the word and ...
Abstract. When participants read a text for comprehension while identifying a target letter, the letter is more often missed in a frequent function word than in a less frequent content word. This is the missing-...
Teachers’ Diagnostic Skills to Judge Student Performance and Task Difficulty When Learning Materials Include Instructional PicturesTeachers’ diagnostic skills are important prerequisites for the planning, delivery, and evaluation of lessons. Learning ...
Dimensional Comparison Effects Between Reading, Spelling and Math. An Extension of the I/E-Model for Elementary SchoolThe internal/external frame of reference model (I/E-model) postulates that students' self-concepts are formed by social as well as ...
dlexDB – A lexical database for the psychological and linguistic researchAbstract. The lexical database dlexDB supplies in form of an online database frequency-based norms of numerous process-related word properties for psychological and linguistic ...
Abstract. Female authors of fiction often perceive themselves to be undervalued in relation to their male counterparts. What is not clear is whether this preference for male authors comes from readers or publishers. Two pre-registered ...
There has been a lot of attention for the idea that the reading of a single word (visual word recognition) involves a single mechanism only. This mechanism first maps the orthographic input onto a sublexical phonological code via which, in a second step, ...
Abstract: Lexical decision tasks (LDTs) are often employed to implicitly measure each hemisphere's capacity to process semantic information. Different hemispheric patterns may result from tasks with explicit semantic demands (semantic decision tasks, SDTs)...
Während zahlreiche Untersuchungen der letzten Jahrzehnte die Bedeutung von individuellen Unterschieden im Bereich der Intelligenz und der sozialen Schichtzugehörigkeit wie auch des Geschlechts für die schulische Leistungsentwicklung in unterschiedlichen ...
Abstract. Eye movements of children (Grade 5-6) and adults were monitored while they were watching a foreign language movie with either standard (foreign language soundtrack and native language subtitling) or reversed (foreign language subtitles and ...
Abstract. This paper presents a new methodology for studying cognition, which combines eye movements (EM) and event-related potentials (ERP) to track the cognitive processes that occur during a single eye fixation. This technique, called eye-fixation-...
Fostering Seventh Graders’ Reading Comprehension: Effects of Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies in German and EnglishThis study investigated how the reading comprehension of 7th-grade students can be improved through peer-assisted learning strategies for ...
Abstract. In Germany, 7.5 Million individuals between 18 and 64 years are considered to be functionally illiterate (Grotlüschen & Riekmann, 2012). Functional illiterates have only rudimentary literacy skills ...