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Sobers, Shauna-Marie; Whitehead, Hannah L.; N'Goh, Konan Nana Anicet; Ball, Mary-Claire; Tanoh, Fabrice; Akpé, Hermann; Jasinska, Kaja K. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2023
Technology-based remote research methods are increasingly widespread, including learning assessments in child development and education research. However, little is known about whether technology-based remote assessments remain as valid and reliable as in-person assessments. We developed a low-cost phone-based language and literacy assessment for…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Literacy Education, Evaluation
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Veenendaal, Nathalie J.; Groen, Margriet A.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Reading Research Quarterly, 2016
The aim of the present study was to examine the relation between decoding and segmental and suprasegmental phonology, and their contribution to reading comprehension, in the upper primary grades. Following a longitudinal design, the performance of 99 Dutch primary school students on phonological awareness (segmental phonology) and text-reading…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Decoding (Reading), Phonological Awareness, Reading Comprehension
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Saint-Aubin, Jean; Klein, Raymond M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2008
When skilled readers search for a target letter while reading for comprehension, they miss the target letter more often when it is embedded in high-frequency function words than in less frequent content words. The magnitude of this "missing-letter-effect" (MLE) was investigated among 180 first- to fifth-grade students as a function of…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Form Classes (Languages), Elementary School Students, Achievement Tests