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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Metronome training improves reading achievement

I previously blogged (a self-serving plug) about an "in press" research article that demonstrated that a mental-timing based intervention (Interactive Metronome; IM) improved reading achievement in elementary school children. The research summarized in this article suggests that a brain-based intervention may improve the resolution of a school child's internal brain clock and, in turn, produce positive reading achievement outcomes. [Check out my prior post for a necessary conflict of interest disclosure.] Also...click here for additional IM-related posts (@ the IQ Brain Clock) and mental time-keeping posts at my sister blog (IQ's Corner).

Below is the reference citation (with link to pdf copy of the article) and abstract.

This is exciting stuff. If the reader wants additional information regarding possible reasons for the success of this intervention, check out the Time Doc's recent IM Keynote PowerPoint presentation.

In addition, I've added this article to the "key research articles" section of this blog.

  • Taub, G., McGrew, K. & Keith, T. (2007). Improvements in interval time tracking and effects on reading achievement, Psychology in the Schools, 44 (8), 849-863. (click here to view)
  • This study examined the effect of improvements in timing/rhythmicity on students’ reading achievement. 86 participants completed pre- and post-test measures of reading achievement (i.e., Woodcock-Johnson III, Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing, Test of Word Reading Efficiency, and Test of Silent Word Reading Fluency). Students in the experimental group completed a 4-week intervention designed to improve their timing/rhythmicity by reducing the latency in their response to a synchronized metronome beat, referred to as a synchronized metronome tapping (SMT) intervention. The results from this non-academic intervention indicate the experimental group’s post-test scores on select measures of reading were significantly higher than the non-treatment control group’s scores at the end of 4 weeks. This paper provides a brief overview of domain-general cognitive abilities believed effected by SMT interventions and provides a preliminary hypothesis to explain how this non-academic intervention can demonstrate a statistically significant effect on students’ reading achievement scores.

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Friday, February 05, 2010

Efficacy of Interactive Metronome treatment study (Cosper, 2009): An example of a "non-example" of IM efficacy research

As a member of the Interactive Metronome Scientific Advisory Board I am often asked to review published research studies that have investigated the IM method.

Recently, a investigation of the effectiveness IM (which is a mental timing-based intervnetion) with children with attention deficit disorder and developmental coordination disorders was published in the International Journal of Rehabilitation Research. The citation and abstract for the article are reproduced below.

  • Cosper, S., Lee, G., Peters, S & Bishop, E. (2009).  Interactive Metronome training in children with attention deficit and developmental coordination disorders, Internal Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 32 (4), 331-336.  (click here to view)

Abstract: The objective of this study was to examine the efficacy of Interactive Metronome (Interactive Metronome, Sunrise, Florida, USA) training in a group of children with mixed attentional and motor coordination disorders to further explore which subcomponents of attentional control and motor functioning the training influences. Twelve children who had been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, in conjunction with either developmental coordination disorder (n=10) or pervasive developmental disorder (n=2), underwent 15 1-h sessions of Interactive Metronome training over a 15-week period. Each child was assessed before and after the treatment using measures of attention, coordination, and motor control to determine the efficacy of training on these cognitive and behavioral realms. As a group, the children made significant improvements in complex visual choice reaction time and visuomotor control after the training. There were, however, no significant changes in sustained attention or inhibitory control over inappropriate motor responses after treatment. These results suggest Interactive Metronome training may address deficits in visuomotor control and speed, but appears to have little effect on sustained attention or motor inhibition.

After reading thie manuscript, I decided to make this formal blog post in an effort to educate readers on a few critical issues related to intervention research. After a thorough read of the study, and despite the fact that it reported positive findings in the area of motor coordination improvement (but not in attention), it is my professional opinion that there are enough major methodological flaws which make the study an invalid study of the effectiveness of the IM treatment program.

Below are the major concerns I have about the study. I will only focus on my major concerns and will not highlight other minor concerns I noted during my review of manuscript.

Treatment integrity/fidelity/validity:  The most serious (fatal) flaw  is the lack of treatment integrity or validity. As described in the methods section, the treatment consisted of one hour sessions (per week) of IM treatment over a period of 15 weeks. To readers unfamiliar with the IM program, the standard treatment protocol is for three hourly sessions per week.  The use of only one hourly session per week (versus the recommended three hourly sessions per week) is a clear example of poor treatment integrity as defined below.

Treatment integrity (also known as treatment fidelity) refers to the degree to which intervention is implemented as intended. Interpretations of the obtained results require some assurance that treatment was carried our as it was designed or, in other words, that treatment was implemented with high levels of integrity. Compromised integrity has serious implications for inferences drawn about the relationship between treatment and outcome. Indeed, the obtained results are related not to the intended intervention (i.e., treatment as designed) but to the implemented intervention (i.e., treatment as delivered by treatment agents). [Click here for more information]

This violation of the IM treatment protocol would be analogous to the following:

  • Being prescribed three weekly sessions of physical therapy for back pain but only doing one session a week.
  • Being prescribed 300 mg/day of some form of medication to treat a condition, but only taking 100 mg/day.
  • Having a reading disabled student who is recommended to receive three hourly sessions of reading-focused special education services a week only receive one hourly session per week.

The bottom line is that this this study should not be considered a valid study of the efficacy of the IM treatment program as it was not implemented as per the prescribed IM treatment protocol (poor treatment integrity/fidelity).  This major methodological flaw in itself disqualifies this study as a valid study of the IM treatment program.

Confounding of IM treatment with pharmacological treatments. The sample consisted of 12 subjects with various diagnoses, but whom all shared a diagnosis of ADHD.  As described by the authors, half of the subjects were taking some form of medication during the study. More importantly, "no medication changes occurred over the course of the study". This introduces a potential intervention confound. It is very possible that the medications received by half of the sample were already impacting the ability of these children to attend and concentrate at their maximal levels. As a result, no non-pharmacological intervention would have a chance to prove its effectiveness as these six subjects were already being "treated " via medication (and might already be near or at their optimal level of functioning). When it can be ethically designed, the efficacy of nondrug (or new drug) effectiveness is typically investigated by having subjects on a  current medication regime discontinue their medication for a rescribed period of time to establish a nondrug baseline performance level. Then the new treatment (or new drug) is introduced and performance measured to evaluate effectiveness. This was not done in the current study for half of the subjects.   It can be easily argued that  at least half of the subjects were already receiving treatment or intervention (medication) which confoundes the ability to detect effectiveness for any new treatment (e.g.,  IM). 

Statistical and design analysis: It is well known in the research methodology literature that the simple analysis of change scores (from a pre- post-test design) is a less than optimal research design. The most critical issue is the fact that the reliability of the change or difference score is a function of the reliability of the pre-and post test scores and the correlation between the two. The reliability of change scores is always much lower than the reliability of individual measures. In addition, possible differences in the subjects as they entered the study should be controlled for in the analysis via some form of statistical control (e.g., analysis of covariance, repeated measures designs, etc.). Simple pre-/post-test change score research designs suffer from serious methodological flaws.  This has been recognized for decades.  The results are of questionable value. Click here for additional background information.  Furthermore, the study does not include a control group or the random assignment of subjects to treatment and control groups.

Incomplete literature review:  In the introduction the authors state that "there are only two peer-reviewed studies comparing pretreatment and posttreatment effects that include a control group, and one of these found that the Interactive Metronome improved golf swings in healthy normal individuals."  The authors failed to mention one of the largest and best designed IM efficacy studies (random assigment of subjects to treatment and control groups;  analysis that controlled for initial pret-test scores) by Taub et al.  (2007).  Furthermore, the above quote conveys the implicit assumption that a study of the effectiveness of IM on golf swings is not relevant to the current research. This reflects a narrow understanding of the potential causal mechanisms of the IM program. As discussed in the Taub et al article, and in a recent review of the efficacy of various brain rhythm treatments, a review of theoretical and empirical research (from a diverse range of disciplines) suggests the hypothesis that the effectiveness of IM is due to its impact on a "domain-general" cognitive mechanism. If a treatment programs efficacy is believed to be based on the modification of a domain general cognitive/brain-based mechanism, one would expect it to have generalized treatment effects across a wide variety of human performance domains. This is discussed in greater detail in the Taub et al paper. [Conflict of interest note - I am a coauthor on this paper].

In conclusion, it is my professional opinion that the Cosper et al (2009) IM efficacy study suffers from major methodological flaws which make the study an invalid study of the effectiveness of the IM treatment program.

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

IQs Corner Recent Lit of Interest: 1-16-13--new and improved

Here is the new and improved IQs Corner Recent Lit of Interest. You no longer need to download a PDF as all articles are listed directly in this post. And, when available....drum roll...the abstract for the manuscript is included.

Enjoy

> PT J
> AU Sandlin, JA
> Wright, RR
> Clark, C
> AF Sandlin, Jennifer A.
> Wright, Robin Redmon
> Clark, Carolyn
> TI Reexamining Theories of Adult Learning and Adult Development Through the
> Lenses of Public Pedagogy
> SO ADULT EDUCATION QUARTERLY
> AB The authors examine the modernist underpinnings of traditional adult
> learning and development theories and evaluate elements of those
> theories through more contemporary lenses. Drawing on recent literature
> focused on "public pedagogy," the authors argue that much learning takes
> place outside of formal educational institutions. They look beyond
> modernist narratives of adult development and consider the possible
> implications for critical adult learning occurring in and through
> contemporary fragmented, digital, media-saturated culture.
> PD FEB
> PY 2013
> VL 63
> IS 1
> BP 3
> EP 23
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Luo, W
> Azen, R
> AF Luo, Wen
> Azen, Razia
> TI Determining Predictor Importance in Hierarchical Linear Models Using
> Dominance Analysis
> SO JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL STATISTICS
> AB Dominance analysis (DA) is a method used to evaluate the relative
> importance of predictors that was originally proposed for linear
> regression models. This article proposes an extension of DA that allows
> researchers to determine the relative importance of predictors in
> hierarchical linear models (HLM). Commonly used measures of model
> adequacy in HLM (i.e., deviance, pseudo-R(2), and proportional reduction
> in prediction error) were evaluated in terms of their appropriateness as
> measures of model adequacy for DA. Empirical examples were used to
> illustrate the procedures for comparing the relative importance of
> Level-1 predictors and Level-2 predictors in a person-in-group design.
> Finally, a simulation study was conducted to evaluate the performance of
> the proposed procedures and develop recommendations.
> PD FEB
> PY 2013
> VL 38
> IS 1
> BP 3
> EP 31
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Jeon, M
> Rijmen, F
> Rabe-Hesketh, S
> AF Jeon, Minjeong
> Rijmen, Frank
> Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia
> TI Modeling Differential Item Functioning Using a Generalization of the
> Multiple-Group Bifactor Model
> SO JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL STATISTICS
> AB The authors present a generalization of the multiple-group bifactor
> model that extends the classical bifactor model for categorical outcomes
> by relaxing the typical assumption of independence of the specific
> dimensions. In addition to the means and variances of all dimensions,
> the correlations among the specific dimensions are allowed to differ
> between groups. By including group-specific difficulty parameters, the
> model can be used to assess differential item functioning (DIF) for
> testlet-based tests. The model encompasses various item response models
> for polytomous data by allowing for different link functions, and it
> includes testlet and second-order models as special cases. Importantly,
> by assuming that the testlet dimensions are conditionally independent
> given the general dimension, the authors show, using a graphical model
> framework, that the integration over all latent variables can be carried
> out through a sequence of computations in two-dimensional subspaces,
> making full-information maximum likelihood estimation feasible for
> high-dimensional problems and large datasets. The importance of relaxing
> the orthogonality assumption and allowing for a different covariance
> structure of the dimensions for each group is demonstrated in the
> context of the assessment of DIF. Through a simulation study, it is
> shown that ignoring between-group differences in the structure of the
> multivariate latent space can result in substantially biased estimates
> of DIF.
> PD FEB
> PY 2013
> VL 38
> IS 1
> BP 32
> EP 60
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Ranger, J
> Kuhn, JT
> AF Ranger, Jochen
> Kuhn, Jorg-Tobias
> TI Analyzing Response Times in Tests With Rank Correlation Approaches
> SO JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL STATISTICS
> AB It is common practice to log-transform response times before analyzing
> them with standard factor analytical methods. However, sometimes the
> log-transformation is not capable of linearizing the relation between
> the response times and the latent traits. Therefore, a more general
> approach to response time analysis is proposed in the current
> manuscript. The approach is based on the assumption that the response
> times can be decomposed into a linear function of latent traits and a
> normally distributed residual term after the response times have been
> transformed by a monotone, but otherwise unknown transformation
> function. The proposed model can be fitted by a limited information
> approach, using the matrix of Kendall's tau coefficients and unweighted
> least squares estimation. The transformation function can be determined
> by resorting to discrete time. The proposed approach offers a framework
> for testing model fit by comparing expected and observed correlations
> and for investigating the hypothesis about the form of the
> transformation function. The adequacy of the proposed approaches to
> model calibration and model validation are investigated in a simulation
> study. Two real data sets are analyzed as a demonstration of the model's
> applicability.
> PD FEB
> PY 2013
> VL 38
> IS 1
> BP 61
> EP 80
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Camparo, J
> Camparo, LB
> AF Camparo, James
> Camparo, Lorinda B.
> TI The Analysis of Likert Scales Using State Multipoles: An Application of
> Quantum Methods to Behavioral Sciences Data
> SO JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL STATISTICS
> AB Though ubiquitous, Likert scaling's traditional mode of analysis is
> often unable to uncover all of the valid information in a data set.
> Here, the authors discuss a solution to this problem based on
> methodology developed by quantum physicists: the state multipole method.
> The authors demonstrate the relative ease and value of this method by
> examining college students' endorsement of one possible cause of
> prejudice: segregation. Though the mean level of students' endorsement
> did not differ among ethnic groups, an examination of state multipoles
> showed that African Americans had a level of polarization in their
> endorsement that was not reflected by Hispanics or European Americans.
> This result could not have been obtained with the traditional approach
> and demonstrates the new method's utility for social science research.
> PD FEB
> PY 2013
> VL 38
> IS 1
> BP 81
> EP 101
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Reise, SP
> Scheines, R
> Widaman, KF
> Haviland, MG
> AF Reise, Steven P.
> Scheines, Richard
> Widaman, Keith F.
> Haviland, Mark G.
> TI Multidimensionality and Structural Coefficient Bias in Structural
> Equation Modeling: A Bifactor Perspective
> SO EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT
> AB In this study, the authors consider several indices to indicate whether
> multidimensional data are "unidimensional enough" to fit with a
> unidimensional measurement model, especially when the goal is to avoid
> excessive bias in structural parameter estimates. They examine two
> factor strength indices (the explained common variance and omega
> hierarchical) and several model fit indices (root mean square error of
> approximation, comparative fit index, and standardized root mean square
> residual). These statistics are compared in population correlation
> matrices determined by known bifactor structures that vary on the (a)
> relative strength of general and group factor loadings, (b) number of
> group factors, and (c) number of items or indicators. When fit with a
> unidimensional measurement model, the degree of structural coefficient
> bias depends strongly and inversely on explained common variance, but
> its effects are moderated by the percentage of correlations
> uncontaminated by multidimensionality, a statistic that rises
> combinatorially with the number of group factors. When the percentage of
> uncontaminated correlations is high, structural coefficients are
> relatively unbiased even when general factor strength is low relative to
> group factor strength. On the other hand, popular structural equation
> modeling fit indices such as comparative fit index or standardized root
> mean square residual routinely reject unidimensional measurement models
> even in contexts in which the structural coefficient bias is low. In
> general, such statistics cannot be used to predict the magnitude of
> structural coefficient bias.
> PD FEB
> PY 2013
> VL 73
> IS 1
> BP 5
> EP 26
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Geldhof, GJ
> Pornprasertmanit, S
> Schoemann, AM
> Little, TD
> AF Geldhof, G. John
> Pornprasertmanit, Sunthud
> Schoemann, Alexander M.
> Little, Todd D.
> TI Orthogonalizing Through Residual Centering: Extended Applications and
> Caveats
> SO EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT
> AB Residual centering is a useful tool for orthogonalizing variables and
> latent constructs, yet it is underused in the literature. The purpose of
> this article is to encourage residual centering's use by highlighting
> instances where it can be helpful: modeling higher order latent variable
> interactions, removing collinearity from latent constructs, creating
> phantom indicators for multiple group models, and controlling for
> covariates prior to latent variable analysis. Residual centering is not
> without its limitations, however, and the authors also discuss caveats
> to be mindful of when implementing this technique. They discuss the
> perils of double orthogonalization (i.e., simultaneously orthogonalizing
> A relative to B and B relative to the original A), the unintended
> consequences of orthogonalization on model fit, the removal of a mean
> structure, and the effects of nonnormal data on residual centering.
> PD FEB
> PY 2013
> VL 73
> IS 1
> BP 27
> EP 46
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Andrich, D
> AF Andrich, David
> TI An Expanded Derivation of the Threshold Structure of the Polytomous
> Rasch Model That Dispels Any "Threshold Disorder Controversy"
> SO EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT
> AB Responses to items with formats in more than two ordered categories are
> ubiquitous in education and the social sciences. Because the putative
> ordering of the categories reflects an understanding of what it means to
> have more of the variable, it seems mandatory that the ordering of the
> categories is an empirical property of the assessments and not merely a
> property of the model used to analyze them. To provide an unequivocal
> interpretation of category ordering in rating formats, this article
> expands the original derivation of the polytomous Rasch model for
> ordered categories. To do so, it integrates a complex of mathematical
> relationships among response spaces from which a space of experimentally
> independent Bernoulli variables, characterized by Rasch's simple
> logistic model, can be inferred. From this inference, the article
> establishes the necessary and sufficient evidence to test the hypothesis
> that the required ordering of the categories is an empirical property of
> the assessments. This expanded derivation, which exposes how Adams, Wu,
> and Wilson (2012) misconstrue the model and its implications, is
> intended to dispel the so-called disordered threshold controversy they
> claim exists.
> PD FEB
> PY 2013
> VL 73
> IS 1
> BP 78
> EP 124
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Radwan, N
> Reckase, MD
> Rogers, WT
> AF Radwan, Nizam
> Reckase, Mark D.
> Rogers, W. Todd
> TI Linking Cut-Scores Given Changes in the Decision-Making Process,
> Administration Time, and Proportions of Item Types Between Successive
> Administrations of a Test for a Large-Scale Assessment Program
> SO EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT
> AB There is a continuing tension in testing programs to equate forms and
> maintain score scales and at the same time allow for changing conditions
> in the educational system, such as curriculum shifts or practical limits
> on testing time. When such changes occur, psychometric staff members are
> challenged to develop linking methods that allow for comparable
> reporting but meet requirements for psychometric rigor. This article
> describes a method addressing such shifts in testing programs. The
> application of the method is demonstrated on a large-scale educational
> testing program that had changes in test length, content distribution,
> and decision-making process. The method used to accomplish the linkage
> was to develop a pseudo test from the items included in the longer test
> before the change that was designed to mimic the test after the change.
> The linking of the tests using the pseudo test process resulted in a
> percentage of successful students that was similar to the percentages
> obtained prior to the changes. The linked scores were treated as
> comparable rather than equated scores.
> PD FEB
> PY 2013
> VL 73
> IS 1
> BP 125
> EP 142
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Lindsay, WR
> Carson, D
> Holland, AJ
> Taylor, JL
> O'Brien, G
> Wheeler, JR
> AF Lindsay, William R.
> Carson, Derek
> Holland, Anthony J.
> Taylor, John L.
> O'Brien, Gregory
> Wheeler, Jessica R.
> TI The Impact of Known Criminogenic Factors on Offenders with Intellectual
> Disability: Previous Findings and New Results on ADHD
> SO JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES
> AB Background Developmental and index offence variables have been
> implicated strongly in later criminal behaviour and service pathways and
> this paper investigated attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
> which, with conduct disorder, has emerged from previous studies on
> offenders. ADHD and conduct disorder are over-represented among criminal
> populations when compared to the general population. The present authors
> reviewed the extent to which ADHD affected the presentation of offenders
> with intellectual disability. Method Information related to index
> behaviour, history of problem behaviours, childhood adversity and
> psychiatric diagnoses was recorded in 477 referrals to forensic
> intellectual disability services. Comparisons were made between those
> with a previous diagnosis of ADHD and those without. Results The ADHD
> group showed higher proportions of physical aggression, substance use,
> previous problems including aggression, sexual offences and property
> offences, birth problems and abuse in childhood. Effect sizes were
> small. Conclusion Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with conduct
> disorder is associated with a greater degree and history of problematic
> behaviour in offenders with intellectual disability.
> PD JAN
> PY 2013
> VL 26
> IS 1
> SI SI
> BP 71
> EP 80
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Kritzer, KL
> Pagliaro, CM
> AF Kritzer, Karen L.
> Pagliaro, Claudia M.
> TI An Intervention for Early Mathematical Success: Outcomes from the Hybrid
> Version of the Building Math Readiness Parents as Partners (MRPP)
> Project
> SO JOURNAL OF DEAF STUDIES AND DEAF EDUCATION
> AB The Building Math Readiness in Young Deaf/Hard-of- Hearing Children:
> Parents as Partners (MRPP) Project works with parents to increase the
> understanding of foundational mathematics concepts in their preschool
> deaf/hard-of-hearing (d/hh) children in preparation for formal
> mathematics education. A multiple-case/single-unit case study
> incorporating descriptive statistics and grounded theory analysis was
> conducted on the hybrid version of the intervention. Results showed
> productive changes in parental behaviors indicating a possible positive
> effect on parent knowledge, recognition, and mediation of early
> ma.thematics concepts with their young d/hh children.
> PD JAN
> PY 2013
> VL 18
> IS 1
> BP 30
> EP 46
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Stoeckel, RE
> Colligan, RC
> Barbaresi, WJ
> Weaver, AL
> Killian, JM
> Katusic, SK
> AF Stoeckel, Ruth E.
> Colligan, Robert C.
> Barbaresi, William J.
> Weaver, Amy L.
> Killian, Jill M.
> Katusic, Slavica K.
> TI Early Speech-Language Impairment and Risk for Written Language Disorder:
> A Population-Based Study
> SO JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL PEDIATRICS
> AB Objective: To compare risk of written language disorder (WLD) in
> children with and without speech-language impairment (S/LI) from a
> population-based cohort. Methods: Subjects included all children born
> between 1976 and 1982 in Rochester, Minnesota, who remained in the
> community after age 5 years (n 5 5718). Records from public and private
> schools, medical agencies, and tutoring services were abstracted. S/LI
> was determined based on eligibility criteria for an individualized
> education plan. Incident cases of WLD were identified by research
> criteria using regression-based discrepancy, non-regression-based
> discrepancy, and low-achievement formulas applied to cognitive and
> academic achievement tests. Incidence of WLD (with or without reading
> disorder [RD]) was compared between children with and without S/LI.
> Associations were summarized using hazard ratios. Results: Cumulative
> incidence of WLD by age 19 years was significantly higher in children
> with S/LI than in children without S/LI. The magnitude of association
> between S/LI and WLD with RD was significantly higher for girls than for
> boys. This was not true for the association between S/LI and WLD without
> RD. Conclusions: Risk for WLD is significantly increased among children
> with S/LI compared with children without S/LI based on this
> population-based cohort. Early identification and intervention for
> children at risk for WLD could potentially influence academic outcomes.
> (J Dev Behav Pediatr 34:38-44, 2013)
> PD JAN
> PY 2013
> VL 34
> IS 1
> BP 38
> EP 44
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Fallon, A
> AF Fallon, April
> TI Assessment With the WAIS-IV
> SO JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT
> PY 2013
> VL 95
> IS 1
> BP 125
> EP 127
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Neuman, SB
> Gambrell, LB
> AF Neuman, Susan B.
> Gambrell, Linda B.
> TI Editorial: Reflections and Directions: Appreciating the Past and Looking
> Toward the Future
> SO READING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
> PD JAN-MAR
> PY 2013
> VL 48
> IS 1
> BP 5
> EP 7
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Guthrie, JT
> Klauda, SL
> Ho, AN
> AF Guthrie, John T.
> Klauda, Susan Lutz
> Ho, Amy N.
> TI Modeling the Relationships Among Reading Instruction, Motivation,
> Engagement, and Achievement for Adolescents
> SO READING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
> AB This study modeled the interrelationships of reading instruction,
> motivation, engagement, and achievement in two contexts, employing data
> from 1,159 seventh graders. In the traditional reading/language arts
> (R/LA) context, all students participated in traditional R/LA
> instruction. In the intervention R/LA context, 854 students from the
> full sample received Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) while
> the remainder continued to receive traditional R/LA. CORI emphasizes
> support for reading motivation, reading engagement, and cognitive
> strategies for reading informational text. Seven motivation constructs
> were included: four motivations that are usually positively associated
> with achievement (intrinsic motivation, self-efficacy, valuing, and
> prosocial goals) and three motivations that are usually negatively
> associated with achievement (perceived difficulty, devaluing, and
> antisocial goals). Reading engagement was also represented by positive
> and negative constructs, namely dedication to and avoidance of reading.
> Gender, ethnicity, and income were statistically controlled in all
> analyses. In the traditional R/LA context, a total network model
> prevailed, in which motivation was associated with achievement both
> directly and indirectly through engagement. In contrast, in the
> intervention R/LA context, a dual-effects model prevailed, in which
> engagement and achievement were separate outcomes of instruction and
> motivation. The intervention R/LA context analyses revealed that CORI
> was associated with positive changes in motivation, engagement, and
> achievement relative to traditional R/LA instruction. The discussion
> explains why there were different relations in the two instructional
> contexts and demonstrates the importance of simultaneously examining
> both positive (affirming) and negative (undermining) forms of motivation
> and engagement.
> PD JAN-MAR
> PY 2013
> VL 48
> IS 1
> BP 9
> EP 26
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Goodwin, AP
> Gilbert, JK
> Cho, SJ
> AF Goodwin, Amanda P.
> Gilbert, Jennifer K.
> Cho, Sun-Joo
> TI Morphological Contributions to Adolescent Word Reading: An Item Response
> Approach
> SO READING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
> AB The current study uses a crossed random-effects item response model to
> simultaneously examine both reader and word characteristics and
> interactions between them that predict the reading of 39 morphologically
> complex words for 221 middle school students. Results suggest that a
> reader's ability to read a root word (e.g., isolate) predicts that
> reader's ability to read a related derived word (e.g., isolation). After
> controlling for root-word reading, results also suggest that the
> remaining variability in derived-word reading can be explained by word
> and reader characteristics. The significant word characteristics include
> derived-word frequency and root-word frequency but not morpheme
> neighborhood size, average family frequency, number of morphemes, or
> semantic opaqueness. The significant reader characteristics include
> morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge but not reading
> comprehension. Only phonological and orthographic-phonological
> opaqueness interacted with the effect of root-word reading, suggesting
> that students were less able to apply root-word knowledge when the root
> word changed phonologically (with or without an orthographic change) in
> the larger derived word. Discussion is included regarding how findings
> from this study inform the development of models of word reading for
> adolescents.
> PD JAN-MAR
> PY 2013
> VL 48
> IS 1
> BP 39
> EP 60
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Vaughn, S
> Swanson, EA
> Roberts, G
> Wanzek, J
> Stillman-Spisak, SJ
> Solis, M
> Simmons, D
> AF Vaughn, Sharon
> Swanson, Elizabeth A.
> Roberts, Greg
> Wanzek, Jeanne
> Stillman-Spisak, Stephanie J.
> Solis, Michael
> Simmons, Deborah
> TI Improving Reading Comprehension and Social Studies Knowledge in Middle
> School
> SO READING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
> AB This study aimed to determine the efficacy of a content acquisition and
> reading comprehension treatment implemented by eighth-grade social
> studies teachers. Using a within-teacher design, the eighth-grade
> teachers social studies classes were randomly assigned to treatment or
> comparison conditions. Teachers (n = 5) taught the same instructional
> content to both treatment and comparison classes, but the treatment
> classes used instructional practices focused on teaching essential
> words, text as a source for reading and discussion, and team-based
> learning approaches. Students in the treatment conditions (n = 261)
> scored statistically higher than students in the comparison conditions
> (n = 158) on all three outcomes: content acquisition (ES = 0.17),
> content reading comprehension (ES = 0.29), and standardized reading
> comprehension (ES = 0.20). Findings are interpreted as demonstrating
> support for the treatment in improving both knowledge acquisition and
> reading comprehension within content area instruction.
> PD JAN-MAR
> PY 2013
> VL 48
> IS 1
> BP 77
> EP 93
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Urso, A
> AF Urso, Annmarie
> TI Introduction to Response to Intervention
> SO READING & WRITING QUARTERLY
> PY 2013
> VL 29
> IS 1
> SI SI
> BP 1
> EP 3
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Saddler, B
> Asaro-Saddler, K
> AF Saddler, Bruce
> Asaro-Saddler, Kristie
> TI Response to Intervention in Writing: A Suggested Framework for
> Screening, Intervention, and Progress Monitoring
> SO READING & WRITING QUARTERLY
> AB Writing may be the most complex facet of the language arts. Students
> need to become competent writers to succeed in school and society;
> therefore, teaching these skills is an important educational goal. To
> accomplish this goal, schools must identify students who have writing
> difficulties early in order to enact effectual interventions. Early
> screening and intervention is even more important in the current
> educational climate of response to intervention. In this article we
> discuss how schools can create a tiered system of screening,
> intervention, and progress monitoring for writing.
> PY 2013
> VL 29
> IS 1
> SI SI
> BP 20
> EP 43
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Abu-Hamour, B
> Urso, A
> Mather, N
> AF Abu-Hamour, Bashir
> Urso, Annmarie
> Mather, Nancy
> TI The Application of Standardized Assessments and CBM Measures in a Case
> Study of a Student With a Severe Reading Disability
> SO READING & WRITING QUARTERLY
> AB This case study examines the impact of intensive research-based
> instruction on the reading development of a bilingual adolescent male
> with a history of reading failure. The study demonstrates the value of
> using normative-based assessments for accurately diagnosing a specific
> learning disability and curriculum-based measures for monitoring the
> effects of intervention. The results of a 24-week intervention also
> demonstrated the effectiveness of both progress monitoring and
> instruction when delivered in a daily, individualized setting. This case
> study clearly illustrates that adolescents with poor literacy can make
> adequate progress but that some schools are still failing to provide
> adequate and appropriate instruction to students who struggle to learn
> to read and spell. We also discuss implications for
> response-to-intervention models for secondary students.
> PY 2013
> VL 29
> IS 1
> SI SI
> BP 44
> EP 63
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Thorius, KK
> Sullivan, AL
> AF Thorius, Kathleen King
> Sullivan, Amanda L.
> TI Interrogating Instruction and Intervention in RTI Research With Students
> Identified as English Language Learners
> SO READING & WRITING QUARTERLY
> AB There are ample research and position papers advocating response-to-
> intervention (RTI) frameworks to address the academic struggles of
> students identified as English language learners (ELLs) and to prevent
> inequitable outcomes such as overrepresentation in special education.
> However, some scholars have questioned how RTI is conceptualized and
> implemented with ELLs. This systematic literature review explores how
> the existing research on RTI for ELLs has addressed (a) the quality and
> appropriateness of Tier 1 practices for ELLs and (b) linguistic factors
> as contexts that impact this quality. A key finding is that current
> research is not sufficiently linked to general education instruction.
> Thus, we suggest that future RTI research address instruction for ELLs
> in general education settings, including the incorporation of Title I
> supports, bilingual education and language acquisition programs, and
> culturally responsive pedagogy into Tier 1 universal interventions.
> PY 2013
> VL 29
> IS 1
> SI SI
> BP 64
> EP 88
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Ritchey, KD
> Coker, DL
> AF Ritchey, Kristen D.
> Coker, David L., Jr.
> TI An Investigation of the Validity and Utility of Two Curriculum-Based
> Measurement Writing Tasks
> SO READING & WRITING QUARTERLY
> AB We investigated 2 curriculum-based measurement tasks for writing with
> 170 students in 2nd and 3rd grade. The 2 tasks, Story Starter and
> Picture Story, varied on topical support. Both tasks used production and
> accuracy scores, and we developed a qualitative score for Picture Story.
> All production and accuracy scores and the qualitative score
> demonstrated low to moderate validity coefficients with the
> Woodcock-Johnson Test of Achievement Writing Samples subtest and a
> teacher rating of overall writing ability. All scores were sensitive to
> grade-level differences in performance, with 3rd-grade students
> performing higher than 2nd-grade students. Two scores for Picture Story
> were sensitive to growth only for 3rd-grade students, and 5 scores were
> sensitive to bimonthly growth for both grade levels. There was moderate
> classification accuracy for both tasks.
> PY 2013
> VL 29
> IS 1
> SI SI
> BP 89
> EP 119
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Petrill, SA
> AF Petrill, Stephen A.
> TI Editorial: Integrating neurobiological, genetic, and environmental risk
> factors in cognitive and behavioral conditions
> SO JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
> PD JAN
> PY 2013
> VL 54
> IS 1
> BP 1
> EP 2
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Zhou, MM
> AF Zhou, Mingming
> TI University student's goal profiles and metacomprehension accuracy
> SO EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
> AB In this study, undergraduate students provided confidence ratings to
> predict future performance in answering questions drawn from the text
> before reading the text, after reading the text and after rereading the
> text. Self-reports of achievement goal orientations during reading and
> posttest scores were also collected. Students calibration index was the
> comparison between their predicted posttest performance and actual
> performance in the posttest. Correlational analyses did not reveal any
> statistically detectable relationships between self-reported goal
> orientations and monitoring accuracy, except that bias scores were
> marginally related to goal orientations. Further cluster analyses and
> analyses of variance (ANOVA) also showed that students multiple goal
> profiles failed to clearly differentiate the groups in terms of their
> calibration accuracy, yet performance-approach goals did distinguish
> overconfident from underconfident students. Plausible reasons for the
> finding were provided and implications for future research were also
> discussed.
> PY 2013
> VL 33
> IS 1
> BP 1
> EP 13
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Plenty, S
> Heubeck, BG
> AF Plenty, Stephanie
> Heubeck, Bernd G.
> TI A multidimensional analysis of changes in mathematics motivation and
> engagement during high school
> SO EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
> AB Despite concerns about declining interest and enrolments in mathematics,
> little research has examined change in a broad range of constructs
> reflecting mathematics motivation and engagement. The current study used
> an 11-factor model of motivation and engagement to evaluate levels of
> maths motivation compared to general academic motivation and to assess
> group-level and individual-level changes in maths motivation during
> secondary school. In a multicohort-multioccasion design, Australian
> students completed an adaptation of the Motivation and Engagement Scale
> in two consecutive school years. Ratings in mathematics were lower than
> general academic motivation on several scales but particularly on the
> planning and task management scales and for the year seven cohort. Mean
> ratings of valuing and task management decreased over the two years,
> while stability of mathematics motivation was moderate. Girls reported
> stronger anxiety, uncertain control and failure avoidance than boys,
> despite also reporting greater mastery focus. The findings demonstrate
> that a multidimensional model facilitates a differentiated analysis of
> possible reasons for a waning interest in mathematics.
> PY 2013
> VL 33
> IS 1
> BP 14
> EP 30
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Sato, W
> Yoshikawa, S
> AF Sato, Wataru
> Yoshikawa, Sakiko
> TI Recognition Memory for Faces and Scenes
> SO JOURNAL OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
> AB Previous studies have suggested that face memory is unique; however,
> evidence is inconclusive. To further explore this issue, we investigated
> recognition memory for unfamiliar faces and scenes. Participants (n =
> 123) intentionally memorized the stimuli and then engaged in recognition
> tests. Recognition was measured following short (20 minutes) and long (3
> weeks) retention intervals. Encoding strategies and intelligence were
> also measured. Recognition memory performance for faces was higher than
> that for scenes at both short and long intervals; however, the effect of
> retention interval was different between faces and scenes. A
> relationship between encoding strategies and memory performance was
> found for scenes but not for faces. The relationship between
> intelligence and memory performance also differed between faces and
> scenes. These results suggest that memory for faces is more robust and
> uses different cognitive mechanisms than memory for scenes.
> PY 2013
> VL 140
> IS 1
> BP 1
> EP 15
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU McCormick, CM
> AF McCormick, Cheryl M.
> TI Watch Where and How You Stick Pins When Playing With Voodoo Correlations
> SO JOURNAL OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
> AB The author comments on the (mis?)portrayal of her research in an article
> by Brand and Bradley (2012).
> PY 2013
> VL 140
> IS 1
> BP 82
> EP 86
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Boisvert, D
> Stadler, W
> Vaske, J
> Wright, JP
> Nelson, M
> AF Boisvert, Danielle
> Stadler, William
> Vaske, Jamie
> Wright, John P.
> Nelson, Matthew
> TI THE INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN INTELLECTUAL ACHIEVEMENT AND SELF-CONTROL
> SO CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR
> AB Low self-control has emerged as a strong predictor of criminal conduct
> and analogous behaviors. Questions remain, however, as to the origins of
> self-control. Whereas some argue it is a trait instilled solely through
> a process of parental socialization, more recent research has suggested
> the possibility that self-control is interconnected with many executive
> functions deriving from the prefrontal cortex of the brain. Using data
> from the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income
> Dynamics (N = 2,104), this study assesses the degree to which
> self-control is linked with intellectual achievement in childhood and
> adolescence. Results from Poisson regression analyses indicate that
> intellectual achievement is significantly related to variations in
> self-control, controlling for a variety of parenting measures; age,
> race, and gender; and previous levels of self-control. A discussion of
> the relationship between intellectual achievement and self-control is
> provided.
> PD JAN
> PY 2013
> VL 40
> IS 1
> BP 80
> EP 94
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Sorberg, A
> Allebeck, P
> Melin, B
> Gunnell, D
> Hemmingsson, T
> AF Sorberg, A.
> Allebeck, P.
> Melin, B.
> Gunnell, D.
> Hemmingsson, T.
> TI Cognitive ability in early adulthood is associated with later suicide
> and suicide attempt: the role of risk factors over the life course
> SO PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
> AB Background. Cognitive ability/intelligence quotient (IQ) in youth has
> previously been associated with subsequent completed and attempted
> suicide, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying the
> associations. This study aims to assess the roles of various risk
> factors over the life course in explaining the observed relationships.
> Method. The present investigation is a cohort study based on data on IQ
> test performance and covariates, recorded on 49 321 Swedish men
> conscripted in 1969-1970, at ages 18-20 years. Information on suicides
> and hospital admissions for suicide attempt up to the age of 57 years,
> childhood and adult socio-economic position, and adult family formation,
> was obtained from linkage to national registers.
> Results. Lower IQ was associated with increased risks of both suicide
> and suicide attempt during the 36 years of follow-up. The associations
> followed a dose-response pattern. They were attenuated by approximately
> 45% in models controlling for social background, mental ill-health,
> aspects of personality and behavior, adult socio-economic position and
> family formation. Based on one-unit decreases in IQ test performance on
> a nine-point scale, the hazard ratios between ages 35 and 57 years were:
> for suicide 1.19 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.13-1.25], fully
> adjusted 1.10 (95% CI 1.04-1.18); and for suicide attempt 1.25 (95% CI
> 1.20-1.31), fully adjusted 1.14 (95% CI 1.09-1.20).
> Conclusions. Cognitive ability was found to be associated with
> subsequent completed and attempted suicide. The associations were
> attenuated by 45% after controlling for risk factors measured over the
> life course. Psychiatric diagnosis, maladjustment and aspects of
> personality in young adulthood, and social circumstances in later
> adulthood, contributed in attenuating the associations.
> PD JAN
> PY 2013
> VL 43
> IS 1
> BP 49
> EP 60
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Li, FM
> Cohen, A
> Shen, LJ
> AF Li, Feiming
> Cohen, Allan
> Shen, Linjun
> TI Investigating the Effect of Item Position in Computer-Based Tests
> SO JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT
> AB Computer-based tests (CBTs) often use random ordering of items in order
> to minimize item exposure and reduce the potential for answer copying.
> Little research has been done, however, to examine item position effects
> for these tests. In this study, different versions of a Rasch model and
> different response time models were examined and applied to data from a
> CBT administration of a medical licensure examination. The models
> specifically were used to investigate whether item position affected
> item difficulty and item intensity estimates. Results indicated that the
> position effect was negligible.
> PD WIN
> PY 2012
> VL 49
> IS 4
> BP 362
> EP 379
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Moses, T
> AF Moses, Tim
> TI Relationships of Measurement Error and Prediction Error in
> Observed-Score Regression
> SO JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT
> AB The focus of this paper is assessing the impact of measurement errors on
> the prediction error of an observed-score regression. Measures are
> presented and described for decomposing the linear regression's
> prediction error variance into parts attributable to the true score
> variance and the error variances of the dependent variable and the
> predictor variable(s). These measures are demonstrated for regression
> situations reflecting a range of true score correlations and
> reliabilities and using one and two predictors. Simulation results also
> are presented which show that the measures of prediction error variance
> and its parts are generally well estimated for the considered ranges of
> true score correlations and reliabilities and for homoscedastic and
> heteroscedastic data. The final discussion considers how the
> decomposition might be useful for addressing additional questions about
> regression functions prediction error variances.
> PD WIN
> PY 2012
> VL 49
> IS 4
> BP 380
> EP 398
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Oh, H
> Moses, T
> AF Oh, Hyeonjoo
> Moses, Tim
> TI Comparison of the One- and Bi-Direction Chained Equipercentile Equating
> SO JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT
> AB This study investigated differences between two approaches to chained
> equipercentile (CE) equating (one- and bi-direction CE equating) in
> nearly equal groups and relatively unequal groups. In one-direction CE
> equating, the new form is linked to the anchor in one sample of
> examinees and the anchor is linked to the reference form in the other
> sample. In bi-direction CE equating, the anchor is linked to the new
> form in one sample of examinees and to the reference form in the other
> sample. The two approaches were evaluated in comparison to a criterion
> equating function (i.e., equivalent groups equating) using indexes such
> as root expected squared difference, bias, standard error of equating,
> root mean squared error, and number of gaps and bumps. The overall
> results across the equating situations suggested that the two CE
> equating approaches produced very similar results, whereas the
> bi-direction results were slightly less erratic, smoother (i.e., fewer
> gaps and bumps), usually closer to the criterion function, and also less
> variable.
> PD WIN
> PY 2012
> VL 49
> IS 4
> BP 399
> EP 418
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Shang, Y
> AF Shang, Yi
> TI Measurement Error Adjustment Using the SIMEX Method: An Application to
> Student Growth Percentiles
> SO JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT
> AB Growth models are used extensively in the context of educational
> accountability to evaluate student-, class-, and school-level growth.
> However, when error-prone test scores are used as independent variables
> or right-hand-side controls, the estimation of such growth models can be
> substantially biased. This article introduces a simulation-extrapolation
> (SIMEX) method that corrects measurement error induced bias. The SIMEX
> method is applied to quantile regression, which is the basis of Student
> Growth Percentile, a descriptive growth model adopted in a number of
> states to diagnose and project student growth. A simulation study is
> conducted to demonstrate the performance of the SIMEX method in reducing
> bias and mean squared error in quantile regression with a mismeasured
> predictor. One of the simulation cases is based on longitudinal state
> assessment data. The analysis shows that measurement error
> differentially biases growth percentile results for students at
> different achievement levels and that the SIMEX method corrects such
> biases and closely reproduces conditional distributions of current test
> scores given past true scores. The potential applications and
> limitations of the method are discussed at the end of this paper with
> suggestions for further studies.
> PD WIN
> PY 2012
> VL 49
> IS 4
> BP 446
> EP 465
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU van der Linden, WJ
> Jeon, M
> Ferrara, S
> AF van der Linden, W. J.
> Jeon, M.
> Ferrara, S.
> TI A paradox in the study of the benefits of test-item review (vol 48, pg
> 380, 2011)
> SO JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT
> PD WIN
> PY 2012
> VL 49
> IS 4
> BP 466
> EP 466
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Houston, KT
> Stredler-Brown, A
> Alverson, DC
> AF Houston, K. Todd
> Stredler-Brown, Arlene
> Alverson, Dale C.
> TI More Than 150 Years in the Making: The Evolution of Telepractice for
> Hearing, Speech, and Language Services
> SO VOLTA REVIEW
> AB For well over a century, individuals have sought new and efficient ways
> to communicate health-related information and provide medical services
> over distances. Often, this desire has sparked considerable innovation
> in technology and ushered in improved models of service delivery. Today,
> modern videoconferencing technology allows practitioners to have
> unbridled audio and video interactions in real time on a range of
> devices. For speech-language pathologists and audiologists, this allows
> an array of hearing, speech, and language services to be provided
> through models of telepractice. By fully understanding the past,
> practitioners can continue to shape the future and fully realize the
> potential of these service delivery models.
> PD WIN
> PY 2012
> VL 112
> IS 3
> BP 195
> EP 205
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Parnes, M
> Berger, A
> Tzelgov, J
> AF Parnes, Michael
> Berger, Andrea
> Tzelgov, Joseph
> TI Brain Representations of Negative Numbers
> SO CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE
> PSYCHOLOGIE EXPERIMENTALE
> AB Participants performed a physical comparison task of pairs of positive
> and pairs of negative one-digit numbers while their electrophysiological
> brain activity was measured. The numerical value of the presented digits
> was either congruent or incongruent with the physical size of the
> digits. Analysis has shown that the earliest event-related potential
> (ERP) difference between positive and negative numbers was found in the
> P300 ERP component peak, where there was an inverse effect of congruity
> in the negative pairs, compared with the positive ones. This pattern of
> results supports the idea that natural numbers serve as primitives of
> the human cognitive system, whereas negative numbers are apparently
> generated if needed.
> PD DEC
> PY 2012
> VL 66
> IS 4
> BP 251
> EP 258
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Silver, JM
> AF Silver, Jonathan M.
> TI Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Soldiers:
> Abnormal Findings, Uncertain Implications
> SO AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
> PD DEC
> PY 2012
> VL 169
> IS 12
> BP 1230
> EP 1232
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Di Simplicio, M
> McInerney, JE
> Goodwin, GM
> Attenburrow, MJ
> Holmes, EA
> AF Di Simplicio, Martina
> McInerney, Josephine E.
> Goodwin, Guy M.
> Attenburrow, Mary-Jane
> Holmes, Emily A.
> TI Revealing the Mind's Eye: Bringing (Mental) Images Into Psychiatry
> SO AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
> PD DEC
> PY 2012
> VL 169
> IS 12
> BP 1245
> EP 1246
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Westbrook, TR
> AF Westbrook, T'Pring R.
> TI Supporting optimal child development through Early Head Start and Head
> Start Programs: Secondary data analyses of FACES and EHSREP: An
> introduction
> SO EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH QUARTERLY
> PD DEC
> PY 2012
> VL 27
> IS 4
> SI SI
> BP 571
> EP 571
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Barton, LR
> Spiker, D
> Williamson, C
> AF Barton, Lauren R.
> Spiker, Donna
> Williamson, Cyndi
> TI Characterizing disability in Head Start programs: Not so clearcut
> SO EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH QUARTERLY
> AB Head Start programs are required to set aside at least 10% of program
> slots for children with disabilities, but the percentage of children
> with disabilities served varies depending on the criteria used and
> source of the information. This study used the Head Start Family and
> Child Experiences Survey (FACES) 2000 data for a nationally
> representative sample to identify subgroups of children meeting three
> different criteria for having a disability or developmental delay.
> Results indicated that about one-third of children in Head Start (33%)
> met one or more of the criteria for a disability or delay, about
> one-third of those children (33%) met criteria for two or for all three
> of the subgroups. However, only 8% of children in Head Start had an
> Individualized Education Program (IEP). Children with disabilities or
> delays, regardless of the subgroup criteria used, had higher levels of
> many other risk factors associated with poor developmental and school
> readiness outcomes. They also exhibited poorer performance on early
> literacy, social, and behavioral measures both at entry into Head Start
> and at the end of kindergarten compared with children not in each of
> those subgroups. Implications of the findings for screening and
> assessment, serving children in Head Start programs, and the need for
> linkages between Head Start programs and the preschool special education
> system are discussed. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
> PD DEC
> PY 2012
> VL 27
> IS 4
> SI SI
> BP 596
> EP 612
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU McWayne, CM
> Hahs-Vaughn, DL
> Cheung, K
> Wright, LEG
> AF McWayne, Christine M.
> Hahs-Vaughn, Debbie L.
> Cheung, Katherine
> Wright, Linnie E. Green
> TI National profiles of school readiness skills for Head Start children: An
> investigation of stability and change
> SO EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH QUARTERLY
> AB Among a nationally representative sample of 2336 Head Start children,
> patterns of school readiness were compared at the beginning and end of
> children's first preschool year, and predictors of stability and change
> across readiness profiles were examined. The present study documented
> that although the majority of children remain in a qualitatively similar
> school readiness profile across their first year in Head Start, 20% of
> children move to a qualitatively different profile over the school year,
> reflecting both improvements and declines in functioning. Child and
> family attributes (e.g., child age, ELL status, maternal education, and
> family structure), as well as contextual factors (e.g., teacher
> education and experience, parenting style, and parent involvement) were
> significant predictors of both profile stability and change. Given that
> we have little understanding about what factors practice or policy can
> manipulate to improve school readiness, these findings shed light on
> what we might do to promote school readiness and prevent declines in
> functioning over time. Thus, findings from this study provide a
> population- and pattern-based perspective of Head Start children's
> strengths and needs, relevant for informing both individual and systems
> level change in Head Start programs across the nation. (C) 2011 Elsevier
> Inc. All rights reserved.
> PD DEC
> PY 2012
> VL 27
> IS 4
> SI SI
> BP 668
> EP 683
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Lough, CL
> Rice, MS
> Lough, LG
> AF Lough, Christine L.
> Rice, Martin S.
> Lough, Larry G.
> TI Choice as a Strategy to Enhance Engagement in a Colouring Task in
> Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
> SO OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY INTERNATIONAL
> AB This study investigated the effect of choice on a colouring task in
> children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Children with ASD
> typically have difficulty engaging in purposeful activities, which makes
> progress toward skill development difficult in therapeutic or
> educational settings. Participants included 26 male and female children
> with ASD, aged 8 to 15?years. In this counterbalanced design,
> participants either chose which picture to colour or were given a
> picture to colour. When given a choice, participants spent more time
> colouring (p?=?0.005) and used more coloured markers (p?=?0.016), but
> did not colour more of the page (p?=?498). This study demonstrated that
> when offering a choice in a colouring activity, children with ASD
> participated and engaged in the colouring task for a longer period of
> time and used a larger array of markers while doing so. However,
> associated small effect sizes require caution with generalization.
> Future research should focus upon offering choice with other
> age-appropriate activities to determine its efficacy as a useful
> strategy for facilitating activity engagement for children with ASD.
> Copyright (c) 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
> PD DEC
> PY 2012
> VL 19
> IS 4
> BP 204
> EP 211
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Burns, MS
> AF Burns, Martha S.
> TI New views into the science of educating children with autism
> SO PHI DELTA KAPPAN
> PD DEC-JAN
> PY 2012
> VL 94
> IS 4
> BP 8
> EP 11
> ER
>
> PT J
> AU Riley, MA
> Holden, JG
> AF Riley, Michael A.
> Holden, John G.
> TI Dynamics of cognition
> SO WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-COGNITIVE SCIENCE
> AB The application of dynamical systems methods and concepts to cognitive
> phenomena has broadened the range of testable hypotheses and theoretical
> narratives available to cognitive scientists. Most research in cognitive
> dynamics tests the degree to which observed cognitive performance is
> consistent with one or another core phenomena associated with complex
> dynamical systems, such as tests for phase transitions, coupling among
> processes, or scaling laws. Early applications of dynamical systems
> theory to perceptual-motor performance and developmental psychology
> paved the way for more recent applications of dynamical systems
> analyses, models, and theoretical concepts in areas such as learning,
> memory, speech perception, decision making, problem solving, and
> reading, among others. Reviews of the empirical results of both
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Mental timing and reading ach study "in press"

The following manuscript has been accepted for publication in the journal Psychology in the Schools. Yes...I am a coauthor and readers should check out my prior conflict of interest disclosure notice regarding my involvement as an external consultant to Interactive Metronome.

I will post more information once the article is formally published.
  • Taub, G., McGrew, K. & Keith, T. (in press). Improvements in interval time tracking and effects on reading achievement. Psychology in the Schools.
Abstract
  • This paper examines the effect of improvements in timing/rhythmicity on students’ reading achievement. A total of 86 participants, attending a public charter school receiving Title 1 funding, completed pre- and post-test measures of reading achievement from the Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement (Woodcock, McGrew, Mather, 2001), Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (Torgesen, Wagner, & Rashotte, 1999a), Test of Word Reading Efficiency (Torgesen, Wagner, & Rashotte, 1999b), and Test of Silent Word Reading Fluency (Mather, Hamil, Allen, & Roberts, 2004). Students in the experimental group participated in a 4 week intervention designed to improve their timing/rhythmicity by reducing the latency in their response to a synchronized metronome beat, referred to as a synchronized metronome tapping (SMT) intervention. The intervention required, on average, 15 daily 50 minute sessions. The results from this non-academic intervention indicate the experimental group’s post-test scores on select measures of reading were significantly higher than the non-treatment control group’s scores at the end of 4 weeks. This paper provides a brief overview of domain-general cognitive abilities believed effected by SMT interventions and provides a preliminary hypothesis to explain how a non-academic intervention designed to improve timing/rhythmicity can demonstrate a statistically significant effect on students’ reading achievement scores.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

White matter matters: Changes in white matter tracts due to reading intervention

More research supporting “white matter matters”.




Rapid and widespread white matter plasticity during an intensive reading intervention

Nature Communications

Elizabeth Huber, Patrick M. Donnelly, Ariel Rokem & Jason D. Yeatman

ABSTRACT

White matter tissue properties are known to correlate with performance across domains ranging from reading to math, to executive function. Here, we use a longitudinal intervention design to examine experience-dependent growth in reading skills and white matter in grade school-aged, struggling readers. Diffusion MRI data were collected at regular intervals during an 8-week, intensive reading intervention. These measurements reveal large-scale changes throughout a collection of white matter tracts, in concert with growth in reading skill. Additionally, we identify tracts whose properties predict reading skill but remain fixed throughout the intervention, suggesting that some anatomical properties stably predict the ease with which a child learns to read, while others dynamically reflect the effects of experience. These results underscore the importance of considering recent experience when interpreting cross-sectional anatomy–behavior correlations. Widespread changes throughout the white matter may be a hallmark of rapid plasticity associated with an intensive learning experience.

Very interesting. The arcuate fasciculus tracts have also been implicated in higher order thinking (Gf) such as in the P-FIT model of intelligence. Also see white paper that implicates the AF in temporal processing “brain clock” timing interventions




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Friday, October 12, 2012

Another study demonstrates positive impact of Interactive Metronome treatment on reading


I just learned that the following article is soon to be published (click here for journal info)
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This is the second peer-reviewed article to demonstrate a significant positive impact of Interactive Metronome (IM) training on certain reading behaviors in a study with both experimental and control groups.  The other study was one I was involved with (Taub, McGrew, & Keith, 2007; the abstract is presented below).  You can access that complete 2007 manuscript at the Brain Clock blog.


In the new Ritter et al. study, IM was combined with reading and language interventions in school-age children that had language and reading impairments.  This will be called the IM+language/reading intervention experimental group (IM+).  Half of the subjects were randomly assigned to this experimental group (n=21).  The other subjects (n=28) were randomly assigned to the same language/reading intervention, but without IM.  So, this study is not a pure investigation of the isolated benefits of IM.  Instead, it should be viewed as a study that investigated whether IM training could be a good “add on” component to other interventions focused on language and reading.  The outcome domain assessed was various components of reading achievement.

Both groups demonstrated statistically significant gains in reading rate/fluency and comprehension.  However, the IM+ demonstrated statistically significant stronger gains than the language/reading intervention only (control) group.  This suggests that IM may be a useful adjunct intervention to be used with other more traditional academic related treatments directed at reading improvement.
Similar to the Taub et al. (2007) study, the IM+ students showed more improvement (over the control students) in reading fluency/rate.  This consistent finding across both studies has been hypothesized to be due to either (a)  improvements in speed of cognitive processing, which results in greater efficiency and automaticity in reading words, (b) greater controlled attention (focus) which improves working memory functioning, or (c) a combination of both.

The new study differed from the earlier study in that IM+ group displayed greater reading comprehension gains than the academic only intervention group.  Taub et al. (2007) found no improvement in reading comprehension.  Given that both groups received the same language and reading comprehension treatment, it is hypothesized that the addition of IM may be impacting some cognitive processes that facilitate reading comprehension.  I agree with Ritter et al. (2012) that a viable hypothesis is that by increasing focus (attentional control) the students working memory’s were more efficient.  Working memory is the minds limited capacity “mental workbench” (just think of trying to recall a new phone number you just looked up in the phone book).   Increased attentional control (focus) increases the ability to actively maintain information just read in working memory long enough for it to be associated with material retrieved from long-term memory—thus “hooking” newly read information into the person’s store of acquired knowledge.  Click here for a recent brief video (I think…therefore IM) where I explain the role of focus and working memory and how it may facilitate higher level cognitive processing, comprehension, etc.

Of course, the small total sample (n=49) suggests some degree of caution.  But when combined with the Taub et al. (2007) study with larger samples, this form of replication in a new sample provides more support for the academic benefits (especially ease and rate of reading words) of IM interventions in school-age children.  Independent replication is a cornerstone of scientific research.