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Which aspects of reading ability show a ‘hump’ in their distribution?
Author(s) -
Stevenson Jim
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.2350020107
Subject(s) - spelling , reading (process) , psychology , facet (psychology) , regression , developmental psychology , dyslexia , mathematics education , social psychology , linguistics , psychoanalysis , philosophy , personality , big five personality traits
Data from two studies on large samples of 7‐, 11‐ and 13‐year‐old children were used to estimate the regression relationship between reading, spelling and maths achievement and IQ. Using these regression equations the number of children obtaining achievement scores more than two standard deviations below that expected were identified. It was found that there was a significant excess of underachievers for reading and spelling at 11 years but not for maths. This ‘hump’ was also found for the reading of non‐words. It was concluded that the issue of whether such a ‘hump’ can be found is only a minor facet of the debate about the nature of reading failure, and that more direct studies of the processing of written text are likely to prove more decisive.