Reading Measures from the Aston Literacy Project and Reading and Vocabulary Project datasets (forming the Literacy in Birmingham and Solihull, LIBS, Dataset)

reading, literacy, children, primary school, secondary school, longitudinal

This data set contains the reading scores from the Aston Literacy Project and Reading and Vocabulary Project samples from the beginning of primary school through to secondary school. These data have been reported as part of the following publications (all open access): van der Kleij, S. W., Burgess, A. P., Ricketts, J., & Shapiro, L. R. (2023). Tracking vocabulary and reading growth in children from lower and higher socioeconomic backgrounds during the transition from primary to secondary education. Child Development. https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdev.13862 van der Kleij, S. W., Burgess, A. P., Ricketts, J., & Shapiro, L. R. (2022). From Bibliophile to Sesquipedalian: Modeling the Role of Reading Experience in Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension. Scientific Studies of Reading, 1-13. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10888438.2022.2068418 Cunningham, A.J., Witton, C., Talcott, J.B., Burgess, A.P., & Shapiro, L.R.*, (2021) Dynamic relationships between phonological memory and reading: a five-year longitudinal study from age 4 to 9. Developmental Science. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/desc.12986