title: Computerized assessment of verbal skill.
abstract: This paper describes a computerized diagnostic test for the assessment of basic literacy skills in Dutch. Central in this test is a skill labeled word image, referring to the subject's implicit knowledge of orthographic structure. Test norms were obtained in a group of reference subjects. The most notable trend found in the standardization study was that the development of word image performance showed a nonlinear, U-shaped trend. Two case studies are reported. A supplementary validation study, based on test data collected from standard reference groups of normal and poor readers, demonstrated that word image performance is significantly related to between-group differences.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Assink
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kattenberg
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003201:Computers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007807:Language Tests; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014705:Verbal Behavior