The relevance of syllable per minute measuring at the assessment of reading rate

Soares, Aparecido José Couto; Cárnio, Maria Silvia; Wertzner, Haydée Fiszbein

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Original Articles • CoDAS 29 (2) • 2017 • https://doi.org/10.1590/2317-1782/20172016080 copy

The relevance of syllable per minute measuring at the assessment of reading rate

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ABSTRACT

Purpose

To verify whether there are differences in the assessment of reading rate of children at 3^rd and 4^th grade from elementary school using the measures of words read per minute and syllables read per minute.

Methods

This research counted on 29 children from 3^rd grade and 28 from the 4^th grade of elementary school without reading and writing disorders. All children were asked to read aloud a text according to their schooling level. The procedure was recorded and the reading rate was calculated both in words and syllables read per minute.

Results

Data indicated that syllable read per minute measure was more effective to calculate reading rate of children from different schooling levels since it provides a more reliable profile of reading rate.

Conclusion

The present study showed evidences that syllable per minute measure is more precise to characterize children’s performance since it considers linguistic and textual features.

Keywords
Learning; Reading; Language; Evaluation; Education

Measure	Calculation
Words read per minute (WRPM)	Number of words of the text x 60/ total reading time in seconds
Syllables read per minute (SRPM)	Number of syllables of the text x 60/ total reading time in seconds

Variable	Group	N	Average	Standard Deviation	Minimum	Median	Maximum
Words read per minute	GP1	29	60.1	27.4	17.3	55.2	134
Words read per minute	GP2	28	60.2	24.4	20.1	60	108
Syllables read per minute	GP1	29	115.2	51.0	48.8	100.2	272.3
Syllables read per minute	GP2	28	147.2	59.6	49.2	146.4	264

Sensitivity	1 - Specificity	Sensitivity	1 - Specificity
1.00	1.00	0.57	0.38
1.00	0.97	0.54	0.38
0.96	0.97	0.54	0.35
0.96	0.93	0.54	0.31
0.96	0.90	0.54	0.28
0.93	0.90	0.54	0.24
0.93	0.86	0.54	0.21
0.89	0.86	0.54	0.17
0.89	0.83	0.50	0.17
0.89	0.79	0.46	0.17
0.82	0.79	0.46	0.14
0.82	0.76	0.43	0.14
0.82	0.69	0.43	0.10
0.82	0.66	0.39	0.10
0.79	0.66	0.39	0.07
0.79	0.62	0.36	0.07
0.79	0.59	0.32	0.07
0.75	0.59	0.29	0.07
0.75	0.55	0.25	0.07
0.71	0.55	0.14	0.07
0.71	0.48	0.07	0.07
0.71	0.45	0.04	0.07
0.64	0.45	0.04	0.03
0.64	0.41	0.00	0.03
0.61	0.41	0.00	0.00
0.61	0.38

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[1] Conflict of interests: nothing to declare.