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Direct linkPfost, Maximilian; Hattie, John; Dörfler, Tobias; Artelt, Cordula – Review of Educational Research, 2014
The idea of Matthew effects in reading--the widening achievement gap between good and poor reader--has attracted considerable attention in education research in the past 25 years. Despite the popularity of the topic, however, empirical studies that have analyzed the core assumption of Matthew effects in reading have produced inconsistent results.…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Individual Development, Reading Achievement, Achievement Gap
Peer reviewedSamuels, S. Jay; Naslund, Jan Carol – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Reviews research on lexical access (the process of getting information about a word from a mental dictionary). Discusses implications for comprehension development. Suggests that individual differences in comprehension depend on speed of lexical access as well as on speed of decoding. (SR)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences, Reading Ability
Download full textPerfetti, Charles A. – 1983
Reading encompasses a wide range of verbal processes, among them such simple verbal processes as word decoding, letter recognition, name retrieval, and semantic access. The question is whether simple verbal processing differences are adequate to account for general reading ability differences. Across different verbal domains and different ages,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Decoding (Reading)
Peer reviewedStanovich, Keith E. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1982
The literature on individual differences in cognitive processes that operate at the text level is reviewed. Poor readers display comprehension deficits independent of word-decoding skill, due to deficient syntactic abilities and to more general metacognitive strategies. The general conclusions from this review and from Part One (ED 150 706) are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education
