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PREDICTIVE VALIDITY OF A SCREENING BATTERY FOR CHILDREN ‘AT RISK’ FOR READING FAILURE
Author(s) -
WHITE MARGARET,
BATINI P.,
SATZ P.,
FRIEL JANETTE
Publication year - 1979
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.2044-8279.1979.tb02407.x
Subject(s) - psychology , reading (process) , predictive validity , developmental psychology , reading comprehension , linguistics , philosophy
S ummary . A three‐year follow‐up of a sample of 407 white boys entering urban Catholic schools in Perth is reported. The children were given a series of eight tests previously shown to predict subsequent reading performance. Using discriminant analysis, it was shown that 75 per cent of children identified as having a high risk of reading failure showed severe or mild symptoms of such failure in terms of reading comprehension in the third year of schooling.