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Su, Yanfang; Willis, Gordon; Salomon, Joshua A. – Field Methods, 2017
Vignette design has been largely neglected in anchoring vignette studies. This study aimed to contribute to the science of vignette design by developing and evaluating vignettes for measuring vision in rural China. Cognitive interviews were conducted among 36 participants in a Chinese middle school. The respondents either directly evaluated vision…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Vignettes, Questioning Techniques
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Jones, Manon W.; Ashby, Jane; Branigan, Holly P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
The ability to coordinate serial processing of multiple items is crucial for fluent reading but is known to be impaired in dyslexia. To investigate this impairment, we manipulated the orthographic and phonological similarity of adjacent letters online as dyslexic and nondyslexic readers named letters in a serial naming (RAN) task. Eye movements…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Coordination, Cognitive Processes, Serial Ordering
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Cordova, Alberto; Gabbard, Carl – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2012
Theory suggests that the vision-for-perception and vision-for-action processing streams operate under very different temporal constraints (Glover, 2004; Goodale, Jackobson, & Keillor, 1994; Graham, Bradshaw, & Davis, 1998; Hu, Eagleson, & Goodale, 1999). With the present study, children and young adults were asked to estimate how far a cued target…
Descriptors: Cues, Vision, Theories, Statistical Analysis