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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Comprehension processes"”.
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THE EFFECTS OF READER CHARACTERISTICS, TEXT FEATURES, AND COMPREHENSION PROCESSES ON READING COMPREHENSION
When the psychological processes underlying test performance are understood, psychometric theory dictates that item difficulty can be explained through these processes. The goal of the project was to improve understanding of reading comprehension and the role of reader characteristics, passage …
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Software comprehension : theory and metrics
… maintainability to name a few. The process of comprehension has been studied by psychologists. Their findings have implications for software engineering practises. A survey of pertinent studies in memory usage and comprehension processes reveals motivators for good software engineering …
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Measuring comprehension of abstract data visualisations
… of a cognitive account of the visualisation comprehension processes, founded upon established theories of visual perception and reading comprehension. Finally, a psychophysical methodology for objectively assessing visualisation efficiency is developed and used to test the efficiency of a …
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The Cloze Procedure: A Measure of Reading Comprehension Ability
… determine if a relationship exists between those comprehension processes measured by the Paragraph Comprehension subtest of the McGraw-Hill Basic Skills System Reading Test and the cloze test developed for this project. Two classes of undergraduate education majors enrolled in “Foundations of …
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Learning from hypertext: navigation, comprehension, and working memory in university students
… decades, questions remain about the reading processes involved in this format, whether individual reader differences are beneficial or detrimental to learning, and how to facilitate navigation and comprehension. Three introductory chapters review the current research literature on reading …
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Organisation des bilingualen Gehirns : eine EEG-Studie zum Einfluss von Erwerbsalter und Sprachniveau
… - influence the brain's responses to online comprehension processes of first and second language in Korean-German bilinguals who were exposed to second language either since their birth or from puberty onwards and who had different language proficiency in second language. The results revealed …
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The Dynamics of Perception During Fixations in Reading (Eye Movements, Information-Processing, Word, Attention, Vision)
… to visual information being used to further comprehension of the text being read, in contrast to registration, which refers to visual information simply becoming available to the brain. In an experiment by Blanchard, McConkie, Zola, and Wolverton (1984) subjects read short texts, and during …
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Health literacy and older adults' comprehension of multimedia health information
… health texts. A valuable strategy for supporting comprehension is to present materials in a multimedia format, and here we focus on supplementing health texts with picture. While much is known about how younger adults benefit from multimedia formatting, significantly less is known about how older …
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Self-efficacy and allocation of effort during reading among older and younger adults
… text difficulty, resource allocation to text comprehension processes, and memory for text. 82 younger adults and 74 older adults completed the Metamemory in Adulthood Questionnaire (MIA; Dixon, Hultsch & Hertzog, 1988), Reading Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (RSEQ), and Media Consumption Habits …
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The Functional architecture of language comprehension mechanisms : fundamental principles revealed with fMRI
… requirement from cognitive models of language comprehension is that they specify the distinct computational mechanisms that are engaged in language processing and the division of linguistic labor across them. Here, I address this requirement from a cognitive neuroscience perspective by …
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An analysis of the effects of pre-reading activities on the comprehension monitoring of learning disabled adolescents
… Researchers have recently focused on the comprehension processes of this population, particularly the metacognitive processes involved in reading. An important area of investigation is how comprehension monitoring can be facilitated during reading. Research in reading and learning …
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Diagnosing L2 English Learners’ Listening comprehension abilities with Scripted and Unscripted Listening Texts
… studies of L2 listening that reveal learners’ comprehension processes when listening to scripted and unscripted listening texts. Studies in which such processing has been discussed have lacked detailed diagnoses of how bottom-up and top-down processing interactively affect listeners’ …