dc.contributor.author
Lüdtke, Jana
dc.contributor.author
Froehlich, Eva
dc.contributor.author
Jacobs, Arthur M.
dc.contributor.author
Hutzler, Florian
dc.date.accessioned
2019-08-15T09:32:03Z
dc.date.available
2019-08-15T09:32:03Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/25295
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-3998
dc.description.abstract
Reading proficiency, i.e., successfully integrating early word-based information and utilizing this information in later processes of sentence and text comprehension, and its assessment is subject to extensive research. However, screening tests for German adults across the life span are basically non-existent. Therefore, the present article introduces a standardized computerized sentence-based screening measure for German adult readers to assess reading proficiency including norm data from 2,148 participants covering an age range from 16 to 88 years. The test was developed in accordance with the children’s version of the Salzburger LeseScreening (SLS, Wimmer and Mayringer, 2014). The SLS-Berlin has a high reliability and can easily be implemented in any research setting using German language. We present a detailed description of the test and report the distribution of SLS-Berlin scores for the norm sample as well as for two subsamples of younger (below 60 years) and older adults (60 and older). For all three samples, we conducted regression analyses to investigate the relationship between sentence characteristics and SLS-Berlin scores. In a second validation study, SLS-Berlin scores were compared with two (pseudo)word reading tests, a test measuring attention and processing speed and eye-movements recorded during expository text reading. Our results confirm the SLS-Berlin’s sensitivity to capture early word decoding and later text related comprehension processes. The test distinguished very well between skilled and less skilled readers and also within less skilled readers and is therefore a powerful and efficient screening test for German adults to assess interindividual levels of reading proficiency.
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dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
reading proficiency
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dc.subject
screening test
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dc.subject
sentence reading
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dc.subject
text comprehension
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dc.subject.ddc
100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::153 Kognitive Prozesse, Intelligenz
dc.title
The SLS-Berlin: Validation of a German Computer-Based Screening Test to Measure Reading Proficiency in Early and Late Adulthood
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber
1682
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01682
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Frontiers in Psychology
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
10
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01682
refubium.affiliation
Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie
refubium.affiliation.other
Arbeitsbereich Allgemeine und Neurokognitive Psychologie
refubium.note.author
Die Publikation wurde aus Open Access Publikationsgeldern der Freien Universität Berlin und der DFG gefördert.
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
1664-1078