Treiman Rebecca, Caravolas Markéta, Kessler Brett
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis.
School of Psychology, Bangor University.
J Res Read. 2019 Feb;42(1):80-96. doi: 10.1111/1467-9817.12241. Epub 2018 May 11.
Children's spellings are often scored as correct or incorrect, but other measures may be better predictors of later spelling performance.
We examined seven measures of spelling in Reception Year and Year 1 (5-6 years old) as predictors of performance on a standardized spelling test in Year 2 (age 7).
Correctness was the best predictor of later spelling by the middle of Year 1, and it significantly outperformed a binary measure of phonological plausibility at the end of Reception Year. Nonbinary measures based on Levenshtein distance were significant predictors of later spelling in the middle of Reception Year and in children who produced no correct spellings. Some widely used scales performed less well with children who did not yet produce any correct spellings.
Nonbinary measures of spelling performance can predict later spelling performance, but for a more restricted period than anticipated based on many theories.
儿童的拼写通常按正确或错误来计分，但其他衡量标准可能是预测其日后拼写表现的更好指标。
我们考察了 Reception 年级和一年级（5 - 6 岁）的七种拼写衡量标准，作为二年级（7 岁）标准化拼写测试表现的预测指标。
到一年级中期，拼写的正确性是日后拼写表现的最佳预测指标，并且在 Reception 年级末，它显著优于语音合理性的二元衡量标准。基于莱文斯坦距离的非二元衡量标准在 Reception 年级中期以及未写出任何正确拼写的儿童中是日后拼写表现的显著预测指标。一些广泛使用的量表在尚未写出任何正确拼写的儿童中表现较差。
拼写表现的非二元衡量标准可以预测日后的拼写表现，但预测的时间段比基于许多理论预期的更有限。
