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. 2018 Nov 14;2018(11):CD009115. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009115.pub3

1. Tests used by studies to measure outcomes.

Outcomes Tests References Studies
Mixed/regular word
reading accuracy
Woodcock Johnson Reading Mastery Test Revised: Word Identification Woodcock 1987 Barker 1995
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test Second Edition Wechsler 2001 Blythe 2006
Woodcock Johnson Psychoeducational Battery Third Edition: Word Identification Woodcock 2001 Ford 2009
Woodcock Johnson Reading Mastery Test Revised: Word Identification Woodcock 1987 Hurford 1994
British Ability Scale: Word Reading Elliot 1983 Hurry 2007
1 experimental test Levy 1997 Levy 1997
1 experimental test Levy 1999 Levy 1999
1 experimental test Lovett 2000 Lovett 2000
2 experimental tests
(trained and untrained – averaged)
Lovett 1990 Lovett 1990
1 experimental test Savage 2003 Savage 2003
Group Reading Assessment and Diagnostic Evaluation Level 1 Version A:
Word Recognition Assessment
Williams 2010 Chen 2014
Non‐word
reading accuracy
Woodcock Johnson Reading Mastery Test Revised: Word Attack Woodcock 1987 Barker 1995
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test Second Edition Wechsler 2001 Blythe 2006
Woodcock Johnson Psychoeducational Battery Third Edition: Word Attack Woodcock 2001 Ford 2009
Woodcock Johnson Reading Mastery Test Revised: Word Attack Woodcock 1987 Hurford 1994
1 experimental test Levy 1997 Levy 1997
1 experimental test Levy 1999 Levy 1999
Woodcock Johnson Reading Mastery Test Revised: Word Attack Woodcock 1987 Lovett 2000
1 experimental test Savage 2003 Savage 2003
1 experimental test McArthur 2015a McArthur 2015a
1 experimental test McArthur 2015b McArthur 2015b
Irregular word
reading accuracy
2 experimental tests (trained and untrained – averaged) Lovett 1990 Lovett 1990
1 experimental test Lovett 2000 Lovett 2000
1 experimental test McArthur 2015a McArthur 2015a
1 experimental test McArthur 2015b McArthur 2015b
Mixed/regular word
reading fluency
Test of Word Reading Efficiency: Sight Word subtest Torgesen 1999b Ford 2009
4 experimental tests (regular and irregular – trained and untrained –
averaged)
Lovett 1990 Lovett 1990
Test of Word Reading Efficiency: Sight Word subtest Torgesen 1999b McArthur 2015a
Test of Word Reading Efficiency: Sight Word subtest Torgesen 1999b McArthur 2015b
Non‐word
reading fluency
Test of Word Reading Efficiency: Non‐word subtest Torgesen 1999b Ford 2009
Test of Word Reading Efficiency: Non‐word subtest Torgesen 1999b McArthur 2015a
Test of Word Reading Efficiency: Non‐word subtest Torgesen 1999b McArthur 2015b
Reading comprehension Wechsler Individual Achievement Test Second Edition Wechsler 2001 Blythe 2006
Gates‐MacGinitie Reading Test Fourth Edition: Comprehension MacGinitie 2002 Ford 2009
Neale Analysis of Reading Ability Neale 1988 Hurry 2007
Test of Everyday Reading Comprehension McArthur 2013 McArthur 2015a
Test of Everyday Reading Comprehension McArthur 2013 McArthur 2015b
Spelling 4 experimental tests
(regular and irregular – trained and untrained – averaged)
Lovett 1990 Lovett 1990
1 experimental test Savage 2003 Savage 2003
1 experimental test Chen 2014 Chen 2014
Letter‐sound knowledge 2 experimental tests
(trained and untrained – averaged)
Lovett 1990 Lovett 1990
1 experimental test Savage 2003 Savage 2003
1 experimental test Savage 2005 Savage 2005
Phonological output
(phoneme awareness tasks)
1 experimental test Barker 1995 Barker 1995
Goldman Fristoe Woodcock Test of Auditory Discrimination: Sound analysis Goldman 1974 Lovett 2000
1 experimental test Savage 2003 Savage 2003
1 experimental test Savage 2005 Savage 2005