Search results for "reading skill"
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The feasibility of working memory tablet tasks in predicting scholastic skills in classroom settings
2019
Cognitive assessment in natural group settings facilitates data collection but poses threats to the validity. In this study, tablet‐based working memory (WM) tasks, the counting span, and reading span were used in predicting 12‐year‐old children's (N = 837) scholastic skills and fluid intelligence in a classroom with environmental noise. WM tasks had excellent internal consistency, correlated with scholastic skills, and accounted for more of the variance in cognitive performance (grade point average, fluid intelligence, scholastic skills) compared with individually administered (n = 190) digit span task. Furthermore, the multilevel analysis revealed that compared with the classrooms with no…
Word Reading Skills and Externalizing and Internalizing Problems from Grade 1 to Grade 2 : Developmental Trajectories and Bullying Involvement in Gra…
2019
School bullying is associated with externalizing and internalizing problems, but little is known about whether reading difficulties also play a part. We asked how, in Grades 1 and 2, word reading skills and externalizing/internalizing problems predict the degree to which students are involved in bullying in Grade 3. Using a sample of 480 Finnish children (M age = 7 years 2 months at the beginning of the study), developmental profiles were identified using mixture modeling based on reading skills, as well as externalizing and internalizing problems. In Grade 3, one fifth of the students were involved in bullying as victims, bullies, or bully/victims. Poor readers with externalizing/internali…
Child-centered versus teacher-directed teaching practices: Associations with the development of academic skills in the first grade at school
2016
This study examined the extent to which child-centered versus teacher-directed teaching practices predicted the development of children's reading and math skills in the first year of elementary school. In addition, we investigated whether associations between teaching practices and children's academic skills development in Grade 1 differed among children who had low, average, or high initial academic skills at the beginning of school. The reading and math skills of 1,132 Finnish children from 93 classrooms were assessed at the beginning and end of Grade 1, and the Early Childhood Classroom Observation Measure (ECCOM) was used to observe teaching practices in 29 classrooms. The results of mu…
The acquisition of early reading skills : the influence of the home environment in Lusaka, Zambia
2014
Early prediction of reading : phonological awareness and related language and cognitive skills in children with a familial risk for dyslexia
2007
PsL Anne Puolakanaho selvitti väitöstutkimuksessaan, miten leikki-ikäisten 3 - 5-vuotiaiden lasten kielelliset ja kognitiiviset taidot ovat yhteydessä lukemisen virheettömyyteen ja sujuvuuteen kouluiässä. Puolakanaho tutki myös, missä määrin dysleksiaa eli sitkeää lukemisvaikeutta voidaan ennakoida lapsikohtaisesti, yksilöllisten riskitekijöiden perusteella jo huomattavasti ennen esikouluikää. Aiemmin lukutaitoa ennustavaa tutkimusta on tehty vanhemmilla lapsilla ja lähinnä kirjoitusjärjestelmältään epäsäännöllisessä englannin kielessä. - Myös kirjoitusjärjestelmältään säännönmukaisessa suomen kielessä leikki-ikäisten fonologis-kielelliset taidot kuten kyky tunnistaa puheesta tavuja ja äänt…
Angļu valodas lasīšanas mācību materiālu teorētiskā pamatojuma analīze
2022
Lasīšanas prasmju un iemaņu attīstīšana ietver vairākas lingvistikas dimensijas, tāpēc efektīvu valodas mācību materiālu izstrāde ir ļoti svarīga, lai apgūtu lasītprasmi. Šī pētījuma mērķis ir noskaidrot, vai ievērojamu izdevniecību mācību materiāli atbilst lasītprasmes attīstības teorētiskajam ietvaram. Kā līdzeklis pētījuma mērķa sasniegšanai tiek izmantota B1/Intermediate līmeņa mācību materiālu uzdevumu kvalitatīvā teorētiskā pamatojuma analīze. Pētījuma rezultāti atklāj, ka publicētajos lasīšanas mācību materiālos tiek izmantoti dažādi līdzekļi, lai atbalstītu izglītojamo lasīšanas paņēmienu izpēti un vingrināšanu. Tiek secināts, ka analizētie uzdevumi atbilst teorētiskajām atziņām un …
Prāta vingrinājumu izmantošana lasītprasmes veicināšanā 5-6 gadus veciem bērniem
2022
Diplomdarba nosaukums: “Prāta vingrinājumu izmantošana lasītprasmes veicināšanā 5 – 6 gadus veciem bērniem” Diplomdarba autore: Maija Antīpina Diplomdarba vadītāja: Dr.paed. Sarmīte Tūbele Pētījuma mērķis: teorētiski izzināt un praktiski pārbaudīt prāta vingrinājumu izmantošanu lasītprasmes veicināšanai 5 – 6 gadus veciem bērniem. Pētījuma hipotēze: 5 – 6 gadus veciem bērniem lasītprasmes veicināšanas process būs sekmīgāks, ja tiks ievērotas bērna vecumposma attīstības īpatnības un tiks izmantoti prāta vingrinājumi. Teorētiskajā daļā darba autore pētījusi un analizējusi dažādu autoru – psihologu, pedagogu un logopēdu zinātniskās atziņas par 5 – 6 gadus vecu bērnu attīstību kopumā, kustī…
Games for enhancing basic reading and maths skills : A systematic review of educational game design in supporting learning by people with learning di…
2018
The GraphoGame Method: The Theoretical and Methodological Background of the Technology-Enhanced Learning Environment for Learning to Read
2014
This paper provides an overview of the GraphoGame method. Both theoretical and methodological aspects related to the method are presented. The method’s guiding principles are based on the prevailing theories and experimental research findings on learning and teaching basic reading skills in alphabetic languages, especially from the point of view of a struggling reader. Because the nature of the target language and its relation to its writing system play central roles in the GraphoGame method, this approach requires the method to be flexible in order to be valid for learners of different languages and orthographies. Thus, the aim of the developed technology is to provide an appropriate readi…
Embedding Preschool Assessment Methods into Digital Learning Games to Predict Early Reading Skills
2017
The aim of this pilot study was to explore the predictive accuracy of computer-based assessment tasks (embedded within the GraphoLearn digital learning game platform) in identifying slow and normal readers. The results were compared to those obtained from the traditional paper-and-pencil tasks currently used to assess school readiness in Finland. The data were derived from a cohort of preschool-age children (mean age 6.7 years, N = 57) from a town in central Finland. A year later, at the end of first grade, participants were categorized as either slow (n = 11) or normal readers (n = 46) based on their reading scores. Logistic regression analyses indicated that computer tasks were as efficie…