Reading Component Skills of Learners in Adult Basic Education

The purposes of this study were to investigate the reliability and construct validity of measures of reading component skills with a sample of adult basic education (ABE) learners, including both native and nonnative English speakers, and to describe the performance of those learners on the measures...

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Published in:	Journal of learning disabilities Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 108 - 121
Main Authors:	MacArthur, Charles A., Konold, Timothy R., Glutting, Joseph J., Alamprese, Judith A.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.03.2010 SAGE Publications and Hammill Institute on Disabilities SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects:	Accuracy Acknowledgment Adolescent Adult Adult Basic Education Adult education Adult literacy Age Differences Age Factors Aged American English Comparative Analysis Comprehension Confirmatory factor analysis Construct Validity Decoding Decoding (Reading) Educational Status English (Second Language) English as a second language learning Factor Analysis Factor Structure Female Five factor model Fluency Gender Differences Humans Immigrants Language Skills Language Tests - standards Language Tests - statistics & numerical data Learning Disabilities Learning disabled students Literacy Education Longitudinal Studies Male Meaning Middle Aged Modification Multilingualism Native Speakers Nelson Reading Test Reading Reading Comprehension Reading Fluency Reading Instruction Reading Skills Reading Tests Reliability Reproducibility of Results Scores Sex Factors Skills Special education Spelling Students Thinking Skills United States Validity Wide Range Achievement Test 3 Woodcock Johnson Tests of Achievement Revised Word Recognition Young Adult United States New York United States > US adult literacy models of reading skills reading
ISSN:	0022-2194, 1538-4780, 1538-4780
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