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Literacy skills and online research and comprehension: struggling readers face difficulties online

Carita KiiliAsko TolvanenPaavo H.t. LeppänenMikko AroLaura Kanniainen

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Linguistics and Language4. Educationmedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciences050301 educationOnline research methods050105 experimental psychologyLiteracySpellingEducationComprehensionSpeech and HearingNonverbal communicationFluencyNeuropsychology and Physiological PsychologyReading comprehensionReading (process)Mathematics education0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesPsychology0503 educationmedia_common

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The present study evaluated the extent to which literacy skills (reading fluency, written spelling, and reading comprehension), together with nonverbal reasoning, prior knowledge, and gender, are related to students’ online research and comprehension (ORC) performance. The ORC skills of 426 sixth graders were measured using a Finnish adaptation of the Online Research and Comprehension Assessment. Results of a structural equation model showed that these ORC skills were divided into six highly correlated factors, and that they formed a common factor in ORC. Altogether, these predictor variables explained 57% of the variance in ORC. Reading comprehension, along with gender, was the strongest predictor for ORC performance. In addition, reading fluency and written spelling explained ORC variance over and above reading comprehension. These findings suggest that struggling readers probably face difficulties online.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2019-03-21Reading and Writing
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-019-09944-9