Assessing reading skills by means of paper-and-pencil lexical decision: Issues of reliability, repetition, and word-pseudoword ratio

Reading and Writing

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 517-536

  Gijsel, Martine A R ^a   Van Bon, Wim H J ^a   Bosman, Anna M T ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lexical decision; Literacy assessment; Oral reading; Test repetition; Word pseudoword ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 6344284552     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:READ.0000044599.98083.d8     Document Type: Article

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