The relation between the discrimination of letterlike forms and word recognition Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The study investigated the visual discrimination abilities of children who varied in their ability to recognize words. Measures of word recognition and intelligence were obtained on 87 first-, second-, and third grade subjects. All subjects then performed a visual discrimination task which uses artificial graphemes as stimuli. The task required subjects to match a standard grapheme with an identical form. Errors on this task were classified into six categories. A two-way multivariate analysis of covariance (grade level X word recognition skill) was performed. In the analysis intelligence test scores were covaried. The main effect for grade was significant (p.0004), while neither word recognition skill nor the grade X word recognition skill interaction approached significance. Results provide information pertinent to visual training practices in schools. 1979 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

published proceedings

  • Reading World

author list (cited authors)

  • Rupley, W. H., Ashe, M., & Buckland, P.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • Rupley, William H||Ashe, Michael||Buckland, Pearl

publication date

  • January 1979