Publisher Summary This chapter reveals a methodology of assessing basic academic skills
focused on problem solving that has been designed to evaluate a student's skills and …

This meta-analysis aims to quantitatively synthesize the relation between the essential
components of reading and reading comprehension in children whose first language is …

In this article, I systematically review evidence on the relations between oral reading fluency
(ORF) and reading comprehension (RC) for adolescents with limited reading proficiency …

Word list reading fluency is theoretically expected to depend on single word reading speed.
Yet the correlation between the two diminishes with increasing fluency, while fluency …

The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of two widely used Curriculum-Based
Measures (CBM) in reading—oral reading and maze—in relation to reading comprehension …

Background The impact of text reading fluency on reading comprehension has been
extensively studied. However, a consensus on the direction of their relationship is lacking …

We examined the diagnostic accuracy and efficiency of three approaches to universal
screening for reading difficulties using retrospective data from 1,307 students in Grades 3 …

Introduction. Behavioral inattention, working memory (WM), and academic achievement
share significant variance, but the direction of relationships across development is unknown …

Fluency is a ubiquitous, but a complicated term. This chapter provides an overview of
various conceptions of fluency across a range of disciplines and research contexts as well …

The purpose of this study was to examine the diagnostic accuracy of English and Spanish
language screeners when predicting reading comprehension outcomes in both languages …