Measuring reading performance

Measuring reading performance

Despite significant changes in the treatment of common eye conditions like cataract and age-related macular degeneration, reading difficulty remains the most common complaint of patients referred for low vision services. Clinical reading tests have been widely used since Jaeger introduced his test types in 1854. A brief review of the major developments in clinical reading tests is provided, fol...

Reading Measuring Instruments

Iranian EFL Teachers' Views on Measuring Reading Comprehension

Understanding the opinions of major role players in education (i.e. teachers, students, and policy makers) on all aspects of learning and teaching is influential to the success of the educational process. The purpose of this study was to investigate EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers' views on measuring reading comprehension. A cohort of 50 Iranian EFL teachers teaching at university,...

Measuring Reading Comprehension with the Lexile Framework

Measuring synchronization among speakers reading together

It has been demonstrated that speakers are readily able to synchronize with a cospeaker when reading a prepared text together. The means by which a high degree of synchronization is attained are still unknown. We here present a novel measure of synchrony which allows us to follow the time course of synchronization among two speakers, based on the parallel acoustic signals. The method uses tradi...