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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Reader characteristics"”.
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THE EFFECTS OF READER CHARACTERISTICS, TEXT FEATURES, AND COMPREHENSION PROCESSES ON READING COMPREHENSION
… of reading comprehension and the role of reader characteristics, passage features, and comprehension processes in understanding text through the application of explanatory item response models. Participants were 1,190 students from 11 to 20 years recruited from eight schools within four …
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How reader and task characteristics influence young readers’ comprehension monitoring
… monitoring is defined as the process by which reader’s evaluate and regulate their understanding of text (e.g., Baker, 1985). Comprehension monitoring is an important component skill of reading comprehension (e.g., Cain, Oakhill & Bryant, 2004). Despite the importance of comprehension …
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8 Readers reading: The intertextual links of able readers using multiple passages
… the intertextual links generated by 8 able readers as they read a five-passage tableau. Each reader silently read the passages and reported aloud their thoughts during a $2{1\over2}$ to 3 hour session. Three scholarly paths--cognitive psychology, semiotics, and literary theory--were used as …
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Testing a model of procedural document processing
… the relationships between document features and reader characteristics. Three information sources were tested in the first study using commercially prepared texts and one experimental text and subjects from 7th and 10th grade and adult students. The experimental text helped the 10th grade and …