On the Miss Middleton Effect by Geraldine E Rodgers

On the Miss Middleton Effect by Geraldine E Rodgers

Miss Middleton's scores are, indeed, a frozen moment in time which prove the existence in 1913 and 1914 of automatic phonic decoding of print as opposed to conscious psycholinguistic decoding of print. The scores also prove that automatic decoding does result from the phonic sound method to teach reading, since that is how Miss Middleton's children learned to read. However, the reading experts in 1914 and after must have misinterpreted scores like Miss Middleton's wildly fluctuating scores, which obviously were the result of freely wandering attention, by concluding instead that the scores had proved that the sound method had failed. The truth is that such low reading comprehension scores on silent reading comprehension tests for phonic-trained classes suggest the presence of healthy automatic conditioned reflexes in reading. Such scores may result from the Miss Middleton Effect of voluntarily wandering attention while reading automatically. Her children simply did not bother to pay attention to what they were reading automatically, but could have done so if they felt like it. Yet the inferior deaf-mute sight-word method forces children's attention to meaning or they cannot read at all. They may therefore score higher on simple reading comprehension tests, but far, far worse on spelling and on reading correctly the actual words on the page.

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ISBN 13	9781665565554
ISBN 10	1665565551
Title	On the Miss Middleton Effect
Author	Geraldine E Rodgers
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Authorhouse
Year published	2022-07-20
Number of pages	132
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