Do nonword reading tests for children measure what we want them to? An analysis of year 2 error responses
Journal article
Castles, Anne, Polito, Vince, Pritchard, Stephen C., Anandakumar, Thushara and Coltheart, Max. (2018). Do nonword reading tests for children measure what we want them to? An analysis of year 2 error responses. Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties. 23(2), pp. 153-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/19404158.2018.1549088
Authors | Castles, Anne, Polito, Vince, Pritchard, Stephen C., Anandakumar, Thushara and Coltheart, Max |
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Abstract | Nonword reading measures are widely used to index children’s phonics knowledge, and are included in the Phonics Screening Check currently implemented in England and under consideration in Australia. However, critics have argued that the use of nonword measures disadvantages good readers, as they will be influenced by their strong lexical knowledge and err by making word errors (e.g. reading flarm as “farm”). We tested this claim by examining the errors made by a group of 64 Year 2 children when reading aloud a set of simple nonwords. We found that stronger word readers were less likely to make a word error response than weaker word readers, with their most prevalent type of error being another nonword that was highly similar to the target. We conclude that nonword reading measures are a valid index of phonics knowledge, and that these tests do not disadvantage children who are already reading words well. |
Keywords | teaching; reading; phonics; children; year 2 |
Year | 01 Jan 2018 |
Journal | Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties |
Journal citation | 23 (2), pp. 153-165 |
Publisher | Routledge |
ISSN | 1940-4158 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/19404158.2018.1549088 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19404158.2018.1549088?scroll=top&needAccess=true |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 153-165 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
24 Nov 2018 | |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 12 Nov 2018 |
Deposited | 06 Dec 2024 |
Additional information | © 2018 Learning Difficulties Australia. |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/9120x/do-nonword-reading-tests-for-children-measure-what-we-want-them-to-an-analysis-of-year-2-error-responses
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