Rapid Word Recognition as a Measure of Word-Level Automaticity and its Relation to Other Measures of Reading |
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| Authors: | Elizabeth M. Frye Ross Gosky |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Reading Education and Special Education , Appalachian State University , Boone , North Carolina;2. Department of Mathematical Sciences , Appalachian State University , Boone , North Carolina |
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| Abstract: | The present study investigated the relationship between rapid recognition of individual words (Word Recognition Test) and two measures of contextual reading: (1) grade-level Passage Reading Test (IRI passage) and (2) performance on standardized STAR Reading Test. To estabilish if time of presentation on the word recognition test was a factor in predicting contextual reading performance, four computerized presentation times were used: 300 msec, 650 msec, 1000 msec, adn 2000 msec. Regression analyses revealed that, for both third- and fourth-grade students, there was evidence that presentation times of less than 1 second better approximated performance on the two contextual reading measures. |
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