Development of Poor and Better Readers During the Elementary School

Autor:	J.F.J. van Leeuwe, Cor Aarnoutse
Rok vydání:	2000
Předmět:	Longitudinal study Vocabulary Reading comprehension media_common.quotation_subject Word recognition Primary education Psychology Child development Vocabulary development Spelling Education Cognitive psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Educational Research and Evaluation. 6:251-278
ISSN:	1744-4187 1380-3611
DOI:	10.1076/1380-3611(200009)6:3;1-a;ft251
Popis:	The goal of this longitudinal study was to describe the average development of word recognition, reading comprehension, vocabulary and spelling of poor and better readers during the elementary school period and to determine whether the differences between these readers increase over a period of 6 years of elementary education. Poor and better readers were defined to belong to the lowest 30% and to the higher 70% of a longitudinal sample, respectively. It appeared that for word recognition the developmental curves for the groups were very distinct and followed similar patterns. For reading comprehension, vocabulary and spelling, the developmental curves showed similar patterns with decreasing differences across grades, however. Clear seasonal effects were found for reading comprehension, vocabulary and spelling, while the seasonal effect for word recognition was restricted to the early grades. It appeared that students with initially poor abilities in word recognition and reading comprehension showed great...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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