Speech Enabled Reading Fluency Assessment: a Validation Study.

ABSTRACT: Although the ability to comprehend what one is reading is one of the most fundamental necessities to function within society, the reading comprehension skills of students have recently been on the decline in many countries. An essential prerequisite to reading comprehension is the ability to read fluently, which is defined as the ability to read (aloud) with accuracy, speed, automaticity and prosody. Current oral reading fluency assessment instruments seldom provide detailed diagnostics however, and bestow a heavy testing burden on practitioners. Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence-based assessment methodology might provide a solution to current assessment issues, but thorough validations of such procedures have proven scarce. This study evaluates whether valid word decoding and

SUBMITTER: van der Velde M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12686063 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature