Date of Award
Winter 2007
Project Type
Thesis
Program or Major
Reading
Degree Name
Master of Education
First Advisor
Grant Cioffi
Abstract
This study evaluates the relationship among three commonly administered phonics measures. "Pseudoword Decoding," a norm-referenced assessment from Wechsler Individual Assessment Test - II (WIAT-II), the "Primary Spelling Inventory" and the "Names Test," criterion-referenced instruments, were administered to a general population of 56 second-grade students with mixed reading abilities. The "Elision" subtest, a norm referenced assessment from the "Phonological Awareness" composite on the Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP), was also administered to all 56 students to discover whether the phonics measures correlated with it. Pearson product moment correlations were used to compare the four measures. Significant correlations were found among all the measures. The phonics measures were most strongly correlated ranging from .778-.845. Students shared their perceptions of and preferences for the measures. Implications for classroom assessment of phonics are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Petrozzelli, Annmarie, "Three points of the phonics triangle: An equilateral relationship among pseudoword reading, name reading, and spelling" (2007). Master's Theses and Capstones. 183.
https://scholars.unh.edu/thesis/183