Evaluation of Reading Performance of Primary School Children: Objective Measurements vs. Subjective Ratings

Erika Godde (1) , Gérard Bailly (1) , David Escudero (2) , Marie-Line Bosse (3) , Estelle Gillet-Perret (4)

1 GIPSA-CRISSP - GIPSA - Cognitive Robotics, Interactive Systems, & Speech Processing
2 UVa - Universidad de Valladolid [Valladolid]
3 LPNC - Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition
4 CHUGA - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire [CHU Grenoble]

We analyze here readings of the same reference text by 116 children. We show that several factors strongly impact subjective rating of fluency, notably number of correct words, repetitions, errors, syllables spelled per minute. We succeeded in predicting four subjective scores – rated between 1 and 4 by human raters – from such objective measurements with a rather high precision (R > .8 for 3 out of 4 scores). This open the way for automatic multidimensional assessment of reading fluency using calibrated texts.

Mots clés: reading; pauses; evaluation; fluency; children

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Erika Godde, Gérard Bailly, David Escudero, Marie-Line Bosse, Estelle Gillet-Perret. Evaluation of Reading Performance of Primary School Children: Objective Measurements vs. Subjective Ratings. WOCCI 2017 - 6th Workshop on Child Computer Interaction, Nov 2017, Glasgow, United Kingdom. ⟨10.21437/WOCCI.2017-4⟩. ⟨hal-01638355⟩