International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences. N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Eds.). - pp. 12800-12805. Oxford: Pergamon. 2001.
Year of publishing
2001
Abstract
The question of reading skill includes definitional and substantive components. The definitional question is answered as follows: reading skill is an individual’s standing on some reading assessment. Skilled readers are those who score above some standard on this assessment; readers of low skill are those who score below some standard. The substantive question is this: What are the processes of reading that produce variation in assessed reading skill? This question is the focus here: given that two individuals differ in some global assessment of their reading, what differences in reading processes are candidates to explain this difference?