Predicting curriculum and test performance at age 11 years from pupil background, baseline skills and phonological awareness at age 5 years

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 732-739

  Savage, Robert ^a   Carless, Sue ^b   Ferraro, Vittoria ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Children; National curriculum; Phonological processing; Prediction; Reading; Spelling

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIMARY SCHOOL; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SCIENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; WRITING;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CURRICULUM; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION, SPECIAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUDENTS;

EID: 34250810323     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01746.x     Document Type: Article

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