Reading Performance Score
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A Reading Performance Score is a linguistic performance score of a linguistic agent (a reader) on a reading performance measure (for some reading task).
- AKA: Reading Skill.
- Context:
- It can range from being a Poor Reader Score to being a Good Reader Score.
- It can be a Strategic Reading Capability (by a Strategic Reader).
- Example(s):
- X was able to read letters at age 4.5.
- one in a PISA Evaluation.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- It may be that Socrates could not read.
- a Listening Ability.
- a Writing Ability.
- an Arithmetic Skill, such as a numeracy skill.
- See: Text Readability Test, Reading Comprehension Capability, Reading Activity.
References
1994
- (Adams, 1994) ⇒ Marilyn Jager Adams. (1994). “Beginning to read: thinking and learning about print." MIT Press. ISBN:0262510766
- For example, across all children, the correlation between reading ability and number of years of schooling should be quite strong. Reading ability may range from none to great proficiency; years of schooling may range from one to twelve or more; and in general child with more schooling do read better.