Screening of phonological awareness in the early elementary grades: an IRT approach
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The purpose of the present study was to explore the possibilities for the assessment of growth in phonological awareness of children in kindergarten and first grade. Phonological awareness was measured using four sets of items involving rhyming, phoneme identification, phoneme blending, and phoneme segmentation. The results of an exploratory factor analysis and analyses conducted within the framework of item response theory showed one latent ability to underlie the different sets of items, which nevertheless differed in difficulty. Analyses in terms of the children's ability further showed the phonological awareness measures to be sensitive to growth. The amount of information supplied by the different sets of items depended on the children's level of ability. The conclusion that it is possible to accurately monitor the development of children's phonological awareness in the early elementary grades appears to be justified, and this possibility opens up new perspectives for the early screening for reading problems and dyslexia.
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- Authors
- Vloedgraven, J. M. T., & Verhoeven, L.
- Affiliations
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Vloedgraven, Judith M. T.
- ORCID
- Verhoeven, Ludo
- Venue
- Annals of Dyslexia
- Published
- 2007-05-22
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 33-50
- ISSN
- 0736-9387 (ISSN-L)
- 1934-7243
- OpenAlex
- W1984556521
- Cited by
- 72
- References
- 61
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 6.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Annals of Dyslexia (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Developmental and Educational Neuropsychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Keywords
- phonological awareness, early screening, item response theory, rhyme, phoneme identification, phoneme blending, phoneme segmentation, early elementary education, kindergarten, first grade, reading difficulties, dyslexia, latent ability
- MeSH terms
- Awareness, Child, Child Development, Factor Analysis, Statistical, Female, Humans, Language Development, Language Tests, Male, Mass Screening, Netherlands, Phonetics, Reading, Sensitivity and Specificity, Reproducibility of Results
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