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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Reading tasks"”.
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Making sense of school: an ecological examination of students' definitions of reading tasks
… students do as they work to complete academic tasks will determine what they learn from those tasks, Teachers often receive unexpected responses on completed tasks, indicating that the students did, perhaps, unexpected things as they completed those tasks, The purpose of this study was to …
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An evaluation of methods of indicating active words in hypertext documents
… subjects (12 males and 12 females) performed reading tasks and visual search tasks to evaluate each of the three Methods and six Cues. A hierarchical, within-subjects experimental design was used, employing a completely counterbalanced order of treatments. The study consisted of two …
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An investigation of information display variables utilizing computer-generated graphics for decision support systems
… All subjects performed four different graph reading tasks consisting of point-reading, point-comparison, trendreading, and trend-comparison. In each task, line, point, bar, and three-dimensional bar graphs were investigated under two levels of task complexity, and two levels of coding (color …
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Inhibitory Control of Saccadic Eye Movements in Reading: A Neurophysiologically Based Interaction -Competition Theory of Saccade Programming
… nature of inhibitory control of eye movement in reading. Further directions for exploring the underlying process of eye movement control in reading are also discussed, including the parametric adjustment of saccade programming in different types of reading tasks, the process of developing reading …
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Temporal and spatial aspects of eye-movement control : from reading to scanning
… durations has been widely neglected in most tasks. As a notable exception, both spatial and temporal aspects of eye-movement control have been thoroughly investigated during reading. There, the scientific discourse was dominated by three controversies, (i), the role of oculomotor vs. …
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Reading foreign language websites : a qualitative investigation of students' reading strategies in German
… interviews, the study identified Internet reading strategies the students used, and determined the difficulties they encountered in Internet reading activities. The observed strategies were related to four different types of reading tasks the students had to complete and to the language …
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"What if this really happened?" Using critical literacy practices and dystopian fiction to mediate self-efficacy with at-risk readers
… and feel inadequate to accomplish the complex reading tasks with which they are confronted in high school; therefore, they often will not even attempt to do the work (Bandura, 1986). Students who are assigned to a Disciplinary Alternative Education Program (DAEP) are at-risk not only due to the …
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Using the organizational and narrative thread structures in an e-book to support comprehension.
… and purposefully in most books. A person reading a book needs to understand themes and concepts within the context. Schanks Dynamic Memory theory suggested that building on existing memory structures is essential to cognition and learning. Pirolli and Card emphasized the need to provide …
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Developing Pre-Reading Skills Through Movement
… knowledge instruction could enhance the pre-reading skills of kindergarten students identified as at risk of literacy challenges. The four-week Active Alphabet intervention embedded core pre-reading tasks within gross motor activities delivered during PE classes. Participants included …
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The effects of reading acceleration on reading comprehension and decoding accuracy in high school students with reading disorders.
Reading disorders have been hypothesized to result from an asynchrony between speed of processing characteristics of auditory and visual systems involved in decoding. It is hypothesized that reading at faster rates can in the reduction of the detrimental effects of this asynchrony. Previous …
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The effect of musical training on verbal and tonal working memory
… non-musicians was compared across a variety of reading tasks in an attempt to examine whether musical training can facilitate Mandarin tone or phonological processing. The effects of increasing working memory load on reading performance across tasks were also examined. Results showed that …
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Parental Literacy Experiences: Relation to a Child's Reading Performance Across Cultures
… significant relationships between parents’ past reading experiences and involvement in children’s literacy at home and how this could be associated with their children’s reading outcomes and motivation. The current study examined parental self- reported literacy experiences, home literacy …
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Disambiguating Biased Ambiguous Words: An Eye Movement Investigation
… and interestingly, readers spent higher rereading times on this context than in any other biasing context.</p> <p>These results invite us to extend the study of ambiguity resolution beyond the study of the earliest moments of meaning access to include mechanisms such as monitoring, …
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An Examination Of Executive Function And Reading Ability In Children With A Reading Disability And Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
… (ADHD), children with a diagnosis of ADHD and a reading disability (ADHD/RD), children with only a reading disability (RD), and a control group on measures of cognition, reading, executive function, and memory tasks. Specifically, the study was looking to examine the impact of comorbid disorders …
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Eye Movements and the Learning of Words
… differences in children's eye movements during reading. In addition, these results demonstrate the very different strategies children employ for the purposes of different reading tasks, and show how children's eye movements on words change as those words become more familiar. Finally, there is …
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Understanding perception of different urban thermal model visualizations
… research study examines the difference in map reading performance between satellite and drone-sourced thermal pseudo-color images for three map reading tasks, the impact of color map selection on map reading, and the potential benefits of adding shading to thermal maps using high-resolution …
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Chunking: Intervention designed to relieve and improve reading performance among dyslexic student
… ability to decode written language while reading and/or writing, and is thought to affect 10-15% of students. It has been suggested that people with dyslexia have more difficulties with visual decoding of text compared to other readers and is most prominent when reading a crowded text. …
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The effect of bilingualism on vocal parameters related to vocal fatigue among Spanish-English bilingual speakers
… recorded speech during three spontaneous speech tasks (SS) and five reading tasks (RS). Acoustic analyses were conducted to obtain the following measures: sound pressure level standard deviation (SPL_sd), fundamental frequency deviation (F0_sd), speech rate, and time. Results revealed an effect …
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LeeLee : an attention visualisation analysis while reading academically
Understanding attention during academic reading is fundamental in the context of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Attention is a limited, yet essential resource that is crucial for processing academic texts and performing focused reading tasks. In a hyper-connected society, distractions from …
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