Automaticity as an independent trait in predicting reading outcomes in middle-school
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9787374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tanja C Roembke (0000-0003-3932-1488, RWTH Aachen University, corresponding author), Eliot Hazeltine (0000-0002-0893-5789, University of Iowa), Deborah K Reed (0000-0003-0874-1412, University of Iowa), Bob Mcmurray (0000-0002-6532-284X, University of Iowa) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 361-375 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/dev0001153 |
| PMID | 33570987 |
| OpenAlex | W3127596587 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 13 |
Many middle-school students struggle with basic reading skills. One reason for this might be a lack of automaticity in word-level lexical processes. To investigate this, we used a novel backward masking paradigm, in which a written word is either covered with a mask or not. Participants (N = 444 [after exclusions]; nfemale = 264, nmale = 180) were average to struggling middle-school students from an urban area in Eastern Iowa that were all native speakers of English and were roughly equally from grades 6, 7, and 8 (average age: 13 years). Two-hundred-fifty-five students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch, a proxy for economic disadvantage. Participants completed different masked and unmasked task versions where they read a word and selected a response (e.g., a pictured referent). This was related to standardized measures of decoding, fluency, and reading comprehension. Decoding was uniquely predicted by knowledge (unmasked performance), whereas fluency was uniquely predicted by automaticity (masked performance). Automaticity was stable across two testing points. Thus, automaticity should be considered an individually reliable marker/reading trait that uniquely predicts some skills in average to struggling middle-school students. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Automaticity · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Fluency · Linguistics · Mathematics education · PsycINFO · Reading (process · Trait · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Text Readability and Simplification
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| Citations per year | 3 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |