The prediction of first-grade reading achievement from WPPSI scores of preschool children
โ Scribed by Donna Romano White; Ellen Jacobs
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 267 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0033-3085
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โฆ Synopsis
The purpose of this study was to meawre the relationship between the WPPSI IQs and subtest scaled scorn in preschool children and their reading achievement in grade one. Twenty4 ht suburban middle class children were given the WPPSI at yes three to 8ve and retested with the Gray Oral Reading Test near the en of first grade. Significant correlations between WPPSI IQs and reading were found. These correlations were similar in magnitude to those obtained between WPPSI 1% of kindergarten children and,grade ! ne leading. Further study of the predictive power of the Geometnc Designs and Arithmetic subtevts was suggested on t.he basis of correlations obtained between these subtmtx and later reading scorm.
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