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The (artefactual) remission of reading disability: Psychometric lessons in the study of stability and change in behavioral development

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Fergusson, DM; Horwood, LJ; Caspi, A; Moffitt, TE; Silva, PA
Published in: Developmental Psychology
January 1, 1996

Patterns of reading disability were examined in 2 longitudinal studies. The major findings were (a) that on the basis of the observed data, remission of reading disability was relatively common with up to 37% of reading-disabled children showing remission of this disability within a 2-year period, and (b) when the data were analyzed with a latent Markov model that took account of measurement errors in test scores, the estimated true rate of remission of reading disability was between 15% and 19% over a 2-year period. The presence of measurement error in reading disability classifications may lead to an inflated and misleading impression of the rate of remission of these problems. General implications of these findings for interpreting patterns of stability and change in longitudinal-developmental data were discussed. Copyright 1996 by the American Psychological Association, Inc.

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Developmental Psychology

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0012-1649

Publication Date

January 1, 1996

Volume

32

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1

Start / End Page

132 / 140

Related Subject Headings

  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 3904 Specialist studies in education
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
  • 1303 Specialist Studies in Education
 

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Fergusson, D. M., Horwood, L. J., Caspi, A., Moffitt, T. E., & Silva, P. A. (1996). The (artefactual) remission of reading disability: Psychometric lessons in the study of stability and change in behavioral development. Developmental Psychology, 32(1), 132–140. https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.32.1.132
Fergusson, D. M., L. J. Horwood, A. Caspi, T. E. Moffitt, and P. A. Silva. “The (artefactual) remission of reading disability: Psychometric lessons in the study of stability and change in behavioral development.” Developmental Psychology 32, no. 1 (January 1, 1996): 132–40. https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.32.1.132.
Fergusson DM, Horwood LJ, Caspi A, Moffitt TE, Silva PA. The (artefactual) remission of reading disability: Psychometric lessons in the study of stability and change in behavioral development. Developmental Psychology. 1996 Jan 1;32(1):132–40.
Fergusson, D. M., et al. “The (artefactual) remission of reading disability: Psychometric lessons in the study of stability and change in behavioral development.” Developmental Psychology, vol. 32, no. 1, Jan. 1996, pp. 132–40. Scopus, doi:10.1037/0012-1649.32.1.132.
Fergusson DM, Horwood LJ, Caspi A, Moffitt TE, Silva PA. The (artefactual) remission of reading disability: Psychometric lessons in the study of stability and change in behavioral development. Developmental Psychology. 1996 Jan 1;32(1):132–140.

Published In

Developmental Psychology

DOI

ISSN

0012-1649

Publication Date

January 1, 1996

Volume

32

Issue

1

Start / End Page

132 / 140

Related Subject Headings

  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 3904 Specialist studies in education
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
  • 1303 Specialist Studies in Education