Non-reading children and unschooled illiterate adults both differ significantly from low-educated literate adults on most print-awareness tasks, but do not differ from each other¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2009 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Both groups of non-readers differed significantly from literate adults in all tasks except the signs task, while the two non-reader groups did not differ significantly from each other in most tasks. → Kurvers 2009

Evidence¶

Kurvers 2009¶

Kurvers, J., Van Hout, R., & Vallen, T. (2009). Print awareness of adult illiterates: a comparison with young pre-readers and low-educated adult readers. Read Writ 22, 863-887. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-008-9129-7

q3 · i? · associational · r2

One-way ANOVA with Tukey HSD post hoc comparisons across three groups (24 children, 25 illiterate adults, 23 literate adults) on six print-awareness tasks. The article reports "all tasks except signs" with p < 0.05 for written register and p < 0.01 for the rest.

"both groups of non-readers differed significantly from the literate adults in all tasks except signs ( p \ 0.05 for written register, p \ 0.01 for all other tasks)."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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