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: 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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-...
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 ...
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 (...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. 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 ...
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 ...
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. 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. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...