Reading metacomprehension of Spanish deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
Isabel R Rodríguez-Ortiz, Francisco J Moreno-Pérez, David Saldaña
PMID 39128027WHAT IT FOUND
Deaf and hard-of-hearing students judged their reading as accurately as hearing peers matched on reading score.
They still struggled to use context clues to work out unknown words and rated their understanding inaccurately more often than age-matched peers.
Key findings
01DHH students and hearing students matched on reading score gave similar comprehension and knowledge ratings for explicit, inferable, and noninferable texts.
02Hearing groups performed better when text clues could be used to work out an unknown word, but DHH students did not show that advantage.
03More DHH students than age-matched hearing students gave comprehension ratings that did not match their actual success rate.
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What it does not show
The study had 25 participants in each group, so it is a small comparison. The texts were short and not very difficult, which may have reduced differences between deaf and hard-of-hearing students and age-matched hearing students. The deaf and hard-of-hearing group was mostly oral Spanish users in mainstream schools with low speech perception despite hearing aids or cochlear implants; it may not apply to signing students or different language backgrounds. The deaf and hard-of-hearing group was older than the reading-score-matched hearing group, so school experience and task familiarity may have influenced ratings. No intervention was tested, so the paper cannot show that teaching strategies improve metacomprehension.
Declared interests
The study was funded by Consejería de Economía y Conocimiento, Junta de Andalucía, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, and Proyectos de Transición Ecológica y Transición Digital. The supplied text does not report commercial funding or author conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that deaf and hard-of-hearing students' metacomprehension is normal for their age. They matched hearing peers on reading score, but had more inaccurate comprehension ratings than age-matched peers, and no treatment was tested.