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Tags: Interesting, but not sure which way the causition goes
Pammer, K., Lavis, R., et al. (2004). Symbol-string sensitivity and children’s reading. Brain and Language 89(3): 601-610.
In this study of primary school children, a novel
’symbol-string’ task is used to assess sensitivity to the position of
briefly presented non-alphabetic but letter-like symbols. The results
demonstrate that sensitivity in the symbol-string […]
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Tags: Original URL: Educational Assessment (doi:10.1207/S15326977EA0601_4) The Developmental Spelling Analysis: A Measure of Orthographic Knowledge
Neither Duke nor UNC has e-access to it.
1999, Vol. 6, No. 1, Pages 41-70
Kathy Ganske
Department […]
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04-12-03
Tags: Original URL: Was looking for bibilographic info of Weber (1970; for graphical MISCUE ANALYSIS: A CRITIQUE
similarity between words), and found this. It cited Weber but didnot
give reference. Nonetheless, it’s sort of interesting and might be
useful for teaching
Dr. Kerry Hempenstall
Department of Psychology and Intellectual Disabilities,
RMIT, Plenty Rd., Bundoora. 3083.
Ph. 9925 7522
Email: hempenstall@rmit.edu.au
The assessment of children’s reading […]
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Tags: Original URL: The paper seems to find what already know. However, the formula for Miellet, S., & Sparrow, L. (2004). Phonological codes are Van Orden adapted an estimate from Weber (1970). Weber’s […]
orthographical similarity, though historical, is interesting.
assembled before word fixation: Evidence from boundary paradigm in
sentence reading. Brain and Language, 90, 299-310.
Appendix B. Van Orden’s (1987) index
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Tags: European Journal of Cognitive Psychology ISSN: […]
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Tags: Original URL: It’s been a while since I read the QMLE model they have. Now they include lognormal, Wald, and Weibull support in their QMPE, in addition to ex-Gaussian. They also make their data available.
All the papers on RT distributions I’ve read assume that there is a
single underlying stochastic process, and that the the […]
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04-12-03
Tags: Original URL: A recent post on LanguageLog reminded me of this "… if you search on Dolly, Google finds Dolly Parton, Scirus finds the cloned sheep."
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Tags: Original URL: The problem raised by Clark (1973) has been in my mind for years. Need to follow up on these papers by Raaijmakers. Prof. Dr. Jeroen G.W. Raaijmakers
Department of Psychology
University […]
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04-12-02
Tags: I blogged about the TUT Language back in April, but had completely forgotton about it, if it were not for a spam comment on it. TUT is a "language" […]
Gave a second look, and it may very well be a critical part of our OT-PA project. Ordered the book/tape.
Several things about TUT make it interesting:
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04-12-02
Tags: by Redford Neal, Stats prof. at U Toronto. The MCMC support sounds appealing. Referred by Kevin Murphy. This software implements Bayesian models for regression and classification
Software for flexible Bayesian modeling
and Markov chain sampling.
based on neural networks and on Gaussian processes and […]
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Tags: Original URL: Kevin Murphy, who is not at UBC, is a consultant of this project. PNL is a full function, free, open source, graphical models library released under a BSD style license.
Public release is now available, see download section below. PNL is
part of the collection of Intel’s Open Source Libraries intended to
promote and foster the […]
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04-12-02
Tags: Original URL: GeNIe |
Intel’s PNL may use the Genie interface in the future.
Features
GeNIe
2 Online Help
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Tags: Original URL: HOW AFRICAN AMERICAN MOTHERS ASSIST THEIR EARLY ADOLESCENT DAUGHTERS WITH READING TASKS Authors: Three African American mothers and their daughters participated in
ALICE SCALES1; ALICE SNYDER2
Source:
Reading Psychology, Oct-Dec 2004, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 297-312(16)
three, 30-minute reading sessions. During each session, daughters read
narrative text for 15 minutes and expository text for the other 15
minutes. Categories of […]
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04-12-01
Tags: Original URL: Dr. Bruce A. Murray Auburn University, AL 36849-2512
(334) 844-6934
FAX (334) 844-6789
murraba@mail.auburn.edu
Bruce A. Murray is an associate professor in the Department of
Curriculum and Teaching in the College of Education. He teaches
courses […]
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Tags: Original URL: Kai
von Fintel
Associate
Professor of Linguistics (Semantics, Syntax)
Class of 1942 Career Development Professor
Kai […]
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Tags: Original URL, from Science Magazine’s CareerBlog (Physics is for Girls, Oct 21, 2004), which I got from Kai von Fintel’s geek notes. I am having a bit of identify crisis now — my right hand shows the
typical male pattern of a shorter index finger, but my left hand says I
am a girl. I read […]
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Tags: Full Text Science, SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY:Why Ordinary People Torture Enemy Prisoners Accounts of prisoner abuse and other institutional violence often blame
of this Article
Vol 306,
Issue 5701,
1482-1483
, 26 November 2004
[DOI: 10.1126/science.1103788]
Susan T. Fiske, Lasana T. Harris, Amy J. C. Cuddy
a few isolated individuals, but social psychology emphasizes social
contexts, which can make almost anyone oppress, conform, and obey in
abetting […]
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04-12-01
Tags: Original URL: Statistical Methods for Rater Agreement This site is a resource for the analysis of agreement among raters, Pros Kappa statistics […]
Hongqui asked about Kappa for interrater reliability. Here is a good source of information (with references).
diagnostic tests, observers, judges or experts. It contains background
discussion on different methods, examples, references, software, and
information on recent methodological developments.
Kappa Coefficients
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