Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Acheson, Daniel J.
• Wells, Justine B.
• MacDonald, Maryellen C.

Titel

New and updated tests of print exposure and reading abilities in college students

Ist Teil von

• Behavior research methods, 2008-02, Vol.40 (1), p.278-289

Ort / Verlag

New York: Springer-Verlag

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The relationship between print exposure and measures of reading skill was examined in college students ( N = 99, 58 female; mean age = 20.3 years). Print exposure was measured with several new self-reports of reading and writing habits, as well as updated versions of the Author Recognition Test and the Magazine Recognition Test (Stanovich & West, 1989). Participants completed a sentence comprehension task with syntactically complex sentences, and reading times and comprehension accuracy were measured. An additional measure of reading skill was provided by participants’ scores on the verbal portions of the ACT, a standardized achievement test. Higher levels of print exposure were associated with higher sentence processing abilities and superior verbal ACT performance. The relative merits of different print exposure assessments are discussed.