The Importance of Memory and Integration Factors to Oral Reading Ability
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One-hundred and eighty randomly selected elementary school students, stratified to include an equal number of boys and girls at each of the six levels and each scoring within 1 SD for the total IQ Mental Maturity, were tested to gain an estimate of the reliability of the three constructed tests (in the areas of auditory memory, visual and auditory-visual integration [AVI]). Findings of the study highlighted the value of mental age as a predictor of reading achievement. Mental age-was found to be (I) linearly related to AVI and (2) a predictor of reading achievement whose efficiency is not increased considerably by the addition of selected auditory factors.