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ArticleJournal of eye movement research2017

A Comparison of Eye Movement Measures across Reading Efficiency Quartile Groups in Elementary, Middle, and High School Students in the U.S.

Alexandra N Spichtig, Jeffrey P Pascoe, John D Ferrara, Christian Vorstius

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Article in Journal of eye movement research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Alexandra N SpichtigReading Plus,Winooski, Vermont, United States of America.
Jeffrey P PascoeReading Plus,Winooski, Vermont, United States of America.
John D FerraraReading Plus,Winooski, Vermont, United States of America.
Christian VorstiusBergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examined eye movements during reading across grades in stu-dents with differing levels of reading efficiency. Eye-movement recordings were obtained while students in grades 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 silently read normed grade-leveled texts with demonstrated comprehension. Recordings from students in each reading rate quartile at each grade level were compared to characterize differences in reading rate, number of fixations, number of regressions, and fixation durations. Comparisons indicated that stu-dents in higher reading rate quartiles made fewer fixations and regressions per word, and had shorter fixation durations. These indices of greater efficiency were also characteristic of students in upper as compared to lower grades, with two exceptions: (a) between grades 6 and 8, fixations and regressions increased while reading rates stagnated and fixation durations continued to decline, and (b) beyond grade 6 there was relatively little growth in the reading efficiency of students in the lower two reading rate quartiles. These results suggest that declines in fixation duration across grades may in part reflect broader matura-tional processes, while higher fixation and regression rates may distinguish students who continue to struggle with word recognition during their high school years.

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automaticitychildreneye movementfluencyindividual differencesreadingsaccadessilent reading efficiency

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PMID33828663
PMCPMC7141082

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