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A FURTHER STUDY OF SOME COGNITIVE AND OTHER DISABILITIES IN BACKWARD READERS OF AVERAGE NON‐VERBAL REASONING SCORES
Author(s) -
LOVELL K.,
GRAY E. A.,
OLIVER D. E.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1964.tb00637.x
Subject(s) - psychology , dictation , verbal reasoning , developmental psychology , test (biology) , intelligence quotient , nonverbal communication , reading (process) , cognition , linguistics , paleontology , philosophy , neuroscience , biology
S ummary . The application of the Watts‐Vernon Reading Test and a Non‐Verbal Reasoning Test to the whole of the fourth year pupils in fourteen secondary modern schools gave 426 pupils with a reading quotient <80; of these 204 had standardised non‐verbal reasoning scores ≥90. Thirty backward boys and twenty‐five backward girls, all of whom had non‐verbal reasoning scores ≥90, were paired, individually, with average to good readers, matched for non‐verbal score, social class, sex and school. The groups undertook a number of individual tests. The boys who were backward had a poorer performance on certain tests compared with non‐backward boys, and a greatly inferior performance to backward girls on the tests of copying and dictation.