Interdependencies Among Mathematics, Reading and Spelling Skills in Young Elementary School ChildrenSummary: The present study investigated the issue whether deficiencies in mathematics and reading/spelling are isolated phenomena, that is, only rarely co-...
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 ...
Computer Training to Improve Childrens' Reading and Spelling SkillsSummaryObjectives and Methods: Sixteen students trained their reading and spelling skills with the computer programmes Budenberg 1 and 2 and the Comles Package for 1000 minutes over a ...
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 ...
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 ...
One Modality-Specific Word Memory is Sufficient – Word Memory Modality in Reading Beginners and Neural NetworksAbstract. Word structure effects denote that familiar letter sequences are easier to remember and to ...
Prediction of Reading Performance in Turkish-German Speaking Children: The Role of Phonological AwarenessMany studies have proved phonological awareness to be a significant predictor of reading competencies. Until now, however, it is unclear whether ...
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 ...
Extended Analyses of the Migration-Related gap in Reading Achievement – Differential Item Functioning Between Children with and without an Immigrant Background Based on the Progress of Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS)School achievement studies show ...
Transfer of formative assessment in primary school reading lessons – the mediating role of acceptability, feasibility and cooperationAbstract. This longitudinal study investigates the effects of three transfer ...
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)...
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 ...
Abstract. The article discusses the emergence of a functional literacy construct and the rediscovery of illiteracy in industrialized countries during the second half of the 20th century. It offers a short ...
We assessed discomfort, time and number of saccades for reading a text superimposed to a moving background. When background moved in the main directions of reading (left to right or top to bottom), discomfort was rated significantly lower than when ...
The methodological assessment and qualitative evaluation of psychometric performance tests based on the example of modern tests that assess reading and spelling skillsAbstract. This article looks at a means of objectively evaluating the quality of ...
Abstract. Language development in children with migration background and parental reading to childrenIntroduction: The majority of children with a migration background suffer from language deficits in one or ...
The role of morphological awareness in reading and spelling performanceAbstract.Objective: Although morphological awareness (MA) is known to be important for literacy acquisition, there are few studies – and no ...
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 ...
Gender Differences in Reading, Writing, and CalculationBackground: Cognitive gender differences and their origins are a hotly debated subject. Strict nature-nurture dichotomies concerning causal roles of gender differences are not useful for their ...
Exam Anxiety, School Achievement and Quality of Life in Third and Sixth Grade StudentsBackground: Learning disabilities are frequently associated with school-related anxiety in both children (Meyer, 2000) and adults (Ashcraft & Kirk, 2001; Eysenck et al.,...
Predicting Math and Reading Achievement Using Dynamic TestingAbstract.Introduction: Dynamic testing (DT) tries to gain insights into students' learning potentials by combining measurement and intervention within ...
The Role of Parent-Rated Executive Functions as Predictors of School PerformanceAbstract.Introduction: The term „executive functions“ (EF) often embraces inhibition, cognitive flexibility and working memory ...
The Role of Morphological Awareness for Early Literacy Acquisition: First Results of a Longitudinal StudyAbstract:Background: For German, few longitudinal studies have examined whether morphological awareness (MA) before ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 (...
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 ...
Predictors of reading skills in children with German as a second languageThis longitudinal study examines the differences between monolingual children and children with German as a second language (GSL) in reading predictors. In structural equation ...
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: In this experimental study with 62 university students, we examined to what extent the hope or hopelessness they experience during reading a text affect their comprehension as well as the magnitude and accuracy of their ...
Effective treatment of dyslexia: A meta-analysis of intervention studiesDyslexia is one of the most prevalent learning disorders that affects individuals throughout their lives. This meta-analysis summarizes intervention studies that have examined the ...
Cognitive Abilities and Literacy: The Role of Intelligence in Reading SkillsAbstract. The present study aims to explore the relationship between cognitive abilities and reading skills in children and adolescents. Significant correlations have been found ...
Prediction of literacy skills through pre-school skills. Are the prediction patterns between monolingual and multilingual children comparable?Abstract. In Germany, many children grow up speaking more than one language – which can be a ...
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. 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-...
This paper focuses on the adaptation and analysis of the psychometric properties of a learning potential test, called “Picture Word Game” (PWG, Corman & Budoff, 1974), which was tested on a sample of 205 Spanish prereaders. The test examines their ...
The purpose of the present study was to compare the predictive power of working memory and IQ in children identified as having learning difficulties. The term “working memory” refers to the capacity to store and manipulate information in mind for brief ...
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 ...
The measurement of science achievement is often unnecessarily restricted to the presentation of reading comprehension items that are sometimes enriched with graphs, tables, and figures. In a newly developed viewing comprehension task, participants watched ...
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 ...
The aim of this paper is to clarify the role played by referential factors in the development of a spatial code during reading. Specifically, it explores whether this spatial encoding is determined by referential events related to a change in narrative ...
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 ...
Abstract. The priming effect of pseudohomophones was assessed in reading and naming tasks. In two experiments using the fast priming paradigm in reading, there were no pseudohomophone priming effects when the prime duration was 32, 44, or 56 ms from the ...
Color-naming latencies to noncolor words and nonwords were faster when the onset or final phoneme of the displays corresponded to the onset or final phoneme of the color response. For example, for displays printed in red, the word rack and nonword rask, ...
An eye movement experiment was conducted to examine effects of local lexical predictability on fixation durations and fixation locations during sentence reading. In the high-predictability condition, a verb strongly constrained the lexical identity of the ...
Our directional reading habit seems to contribute to the widely reported association of small numbers with left space and larger numbers with right space (the spatial-numerical association of response codes, SNARC, effect). But how can this association be ...
The current eye-movement study investigated whether a salient segmentation cue like the hyphen facilitates the identification of long and short compound words. The study was conducted in Finnish, where compound words exist in great abundance. The results ...
Abstract. Research has suggested that the word recognition process is influenced by the integration of orthographic information across words. The precise nature of this integration process may vary, however, depending on whether words are ...
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-...
This study explored how the structure of written news affects men and women differently in terms of cognition. In a 2 (Structure) × 2 (Story) × 2 (Sex) mixed design, participants read two inverted pyramid and two chronological news stories, each on a ...
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 ...
Abstract. Reading is an example of complex learning specific to human beings. In readers, an area of the brain is dedicated to the visual processing of letters and words, referred to as the visual word form area (VWFA). The existence of ...
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 ...