Measurement of Eye Movements While Reading a German Text

University of Basel

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Children

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: reading of a text

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04642781

2018-00283

Details and patient eligibility

About

To establish normative value for reading parameters in healthy children of primary school age and in grades 2-5.

Full description

Following initial assessment of feasibility, recruitment is expanded to children attending grades 2-5 recruited from 4 different primary schools in German speaking Switzerland. Two texts of The New International Reading Speed Test (IReST) of similar difficulty are presented on a laptop in randomized order. Children are asked to read the text aloud while eye movements are recorded with an eye tracking bar. The following parameters are analysed: reading speed (words/minute), number of saccades, number of fixations.

Enrollment: 127 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 13 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 8-13 years
• child consent
• parental consent

Exclusion criteria

• unability to read

Trial design

127 participants in 1 patient group

healthy children aged 8-13years (schoolgrade 2-5)

Description:

Primary school children are asked to read a German text presented on a laptop screen

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: reading of a text