Assessment of spelling skills and knowledge in pupils with special educational needs

Abstract
This study, combines quantitative assessment methods with quality analysis of the mistakes and explores the ability for spelling of students with special educational needs, from 7 to 12 years old. Specifically the research is examining the development stage of spelling skill of students with special educational needs in the second, in the third, in the fourth, in the fifth, and in the sixth grade of Primary School assessing the spelling with a dictation spelling test and comparing their performance with the average performance of the general population of the same age group. We investigate the degree of the development of the spelling ability of pupils with a quality analysis of the mistakes in corresponding categories concerning the phonological, morphological and visual-orthographic awareness as well as the use of the conventions of writing and we also acquire useful information for their cognitive processes and their individual needs. The results of the study show lower performance of the most pupils in relation to the average of the population of the peers. Also, they show limitations and deficits in phonological skills and morphosyntactic processing, as well as limited visual-orthographic representations. Based on these findings, the study discusses the development stage of spelling skills in the pupils, the factors which influenced their orthographic performance, the degree of difficulty of the spelling test and the different growth rate of spelling ability of the pupils.
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Ξάνθη Σ. Β. (2019). Assessment of spelling skills and knowledge in pupils with special educational needs. Hellenic Journal of Research in Education, 8(1), 92–111. https://doi.org/10.12681/hjre.20614
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