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ArticleJournal of school psychology2023

Contributions of attentional control, hyperactivity-impulsivity, and reading skills to performance on a fourth-grade state writing test.

Erin K Reid, Yusra Ahmed, Milena A Keller-Margulis

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Article in Journal of school psychology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Erin K ReidBaylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA. Electronic address: exreid@texaschildrens.org.
Yusra AhmedDepartment of Psychology and Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Milena A Keller-MargulisDepartment of Psychological, Health, and Learning Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
University of Houston · USBaylor College of Medicine · US

Funding

Texas Center for Learning DisabilitiesP50HD052117 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · PI FLETCHER, JACK M · 2006 to 2023
$26.9M
Zolmitriptan challenge and human performance testingM01RR002558 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI SCHULTZ, STANLEY G · 1985 to 2006
$10.3M
Progression of reading and writing disabilities from late elementary to middle gradesR01HD096262 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · PI AHMED, YUSRA · 2018 to 2020
$1.1M
NCRR NIH HHS M01 RR002558NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD052117NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD096262
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Writing proficiency facilitates higher achievement in educational and professional endeavors, yet most students fail to meet national writing benchmarks by the end of high school. Attentional control and overall reading skill are documented to result in better writing quality; however, most research on these relationships has focused on early elementary students (K-3rd grade. This project evaluated the relationship between attentional control, hyperactivity-impulsivity, word reading, and reading comprehension to overall writing performance on a high-stakes writing test. Participants included 266 fourth-grade struggling readers who completed the Strengths and Weaknesses of ADHD Symptoms and Normal Behavior (SWAN; Swanson et al., 2001, 2012) for attentional control and hyperactivity-impulsivity, the Woodcock-Johnson III (WJ-III; Woodcock et al., 2001) Letter-Word Identification test for word reading, the WJ-III Passage Comprehension test for reading comprehension, and the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) writing test for overall writing. Hyperactivity-impulsivity was not related to word reading (β = 0.02, p > .05), reading comprehension (β = 0.06, p > .05), or writing (β = 0.14, p > .05), whereas attentional control (β = 0.51, p < .01) and reading comprehension (β = 0.55, p < .001) contributed to overall writing. Reading comprehension (β = 0.55, p < .01) had a greater impact on writing than word reading (β = 0.13, p > .05), which suggests that as academic rigor increases in the upper elementary school grades (4th grade and higher), basic skills are less predictive of success on complex tasks such as writing. Implications for increasing writing proficiency through research and practice are discussed.

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ComprehensionReadingAttentionChildEducational StatusHumansWritingAttentionFourth gradeReadingState testWriting

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PMID37507188
PMCPMC10465075
OpenAlexW4381140983

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