A Chronometric Study of Component Skills in Reading.

Abstract

A component skills model of reading is presented. On the basis of the model, five component factors are hypothesized: (1) Grapheme encoding, (2) Encoding multi-letter units, (3) Phonemic translations, (4) Automaticity of articulation, and (5) Depth of processing in word recognition. The fit of the hypothesized component factor model is tested using covariance data for eleven chronometric measures, chosen to reflect separate stages of processing. The fit of the structural model is found to be good (p=.2). Three alternative models are developed, each representing a simplification of the general model; in each case the alternative structural model is rejected. The component skills model accounts for nearly all of the variance in subjects' general reading ability, as measured by standard tests of reading comprehension. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 15, 1978
Accession Number
ADA051817

Entities

People

  • John R. Frederiksen

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Coding
  • Cognition
  • Decoding
  • Education
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Identification
  • Information Processing
  • Military Research
  • Psychology
  • Recognition
  • Schools
  • Security
  • Social Sciences
  • Training
  • Word Recognition

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Regression Analysis.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Bayesian Inference
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation