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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"reading time"”.
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The Collective Moment: Reading Time in the Greek Anthology
… of Greek epigram and the experience of reading diachronic difference in the Greek anthological tradition to argue for the importance of transhistorical, non-linear reading to the construction and interpretation of Hellenistic, Imperial, and late-antique anthologies. My work builds on an …
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The Effects of Weekly Sustained Silent Reading Time on Recreational Reading Habist and Attitudes ina 9th Grade English Class
<p>Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) has been around in various forms for over forty years. While this subject has received much study in the elementary schools, the influence of SSR on typical, non-at-risk high school students reading habits appears to be lacking. The purpose of this study is to …
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Perceptions of Out-of-School Reading Motivation for Female Middle School Students
… motivation to read is lacking in middle school reading classrooms. Educators struggle with the challenge of motivating students to read and actively engage with text both inside and outside of school. Research indicates that female and male middle school students have unique characteristics and …
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The Attitudes Toward Reading And Reading Achievement Of Seventh Grade Students In A Sustained Silent Reading Program
… many students develop negative attitudes toward reading as they advance through school. Because students report that they enjoy independent reading time, providing this time to students in middle school is thought to be beneficial. Additional research is needed to determine whether providing …
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Context Effects on the Representation of Meaning
… terms. The first experiment employed an on-line reading time paradigm to establish that context affects the representation accessed for a category term at the time of comprehension.
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Objective Image Quality of CRT Displays under Ambient Glare: Assessing the ISO 9241-7 Ergonomic Technical Standard
… combinations. The dependent measures were the time to read the Tinker passage (reading time) and the ability to identify the out of context word in each passage (accuracy). An Analysis of Variance was used to determine the significant effects of reading time and accuracy. The ANOVA results …
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A Review of Engagement Rates Within Second Grade Reading Groups Working With and Without the Teacher in Selected Northern Illinois School Districts
… of second grade readers during their allocated reading time. The subjects chosen were students who work within ability groups assisted or unassisted by the teacher. The study observed one hundred thirty students on three separate occasions for a total of three hundred ninety observations.
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What happened (and what didn't): prominence promotes representation of salient alternatives in discourse
… nevertheless mentioned in the discourse. Online reading time measures in Experiment 2 indicated that emphasized words did not improve performance on all trials and only benefited memory to the extent that participants devoted extra time to them, although no such relation was observed in …
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Aging and semantic integration in sentence processing: Testing the cognitive workload of wrap-up
… presence of wrap-up effects, peaks in processing time at clause and sentence boundaries that some argue reflect attention to organizational and integrative semantic processes. However, the exact nature of these wrap-up effects is still not entirely clear, with some arguing that wrap-up is not …
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Usability evaluation of a fault tree software user documentation
… included number of errors, task completion time, document reading time, and number of personal helps requested. In addition, subjective ratings on ease of use, accuracy of information, inconsistencies, ease of learning, completeness, helpfulness of figures, and ease of understanding were …
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Family Support for At-Risk Second Graders to Improve Reading Fluency
… in helping their at-risk children improve their reading skills. Parents generally want to be part of their children’s academic achievement, but may not always know the most appropriate or effective way to contribute. Teachers encourage at-risk students to read consistently at home and supportive …
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Emotion Word Processing and Previous Exposure to Violent Media: An Eye-Tracking Study
… This study examines the correlation between reading behavior (measured via eye-tracking) and participant’s self-reported previous exposure to different types of violent media. Participants read sentences containing either a nonviolent, neutral critical word or a violent, negatively valenced …
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The application of decision times and reaction times in the construction of latency weighted test scores
… test scores was investigated. Three times were measured on each test item by the computer system which administered two tests. The times recorded were: the reading time which the student used to read the stem of the question; the decision time which the student used to read the …
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Effekte simultanen Hörens und Lesens auf das L2-Lesen : eine Eyetracking-Studie im Bereich Deutsch als Fremdsprache
… the effects of simultaneous listening and reading on visual information processing, text comprehension, and memory performance of Chinese participants on an advanced level of German as a foreign language (L2) when reading German literary texts. Two conditions were compared: reading (R) and …
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An Investigation of Reading Instruction in Northeast Tennessee.
… specific prekindergarten- through 8th-grade reading programs, instructional best practices, academic interventions, and educational activities that are perceived as successful practices in four high achieving schools within the parameters of Northeast Tennessee. This study was accomplished …
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Effects of color CRT misconvergence and display luminance on reading performance and perceived image quality judgments
… CRT misconvergence and display luminance on reading performance and perceived image quality. The objectives of this study were (1) to determine the effects of color CRT misconvergence on reading time and errors, (2) to determine the effects of color CRT misconvergence on subjective ratings of …
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What Strategies and Activities Help Sixth-Grade Students Acquire Vocabulary?
… the words of a language which lead to reading and word comprehension. These components are intrinsically, irrevocably linked as the building blocks of communication in any language and are the keys to understanding and learning. Students who lack fluency in language and strategies to …
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Implicit graphemic cues in Thai reading
… boundaries typically show improvements in early reading time measures when spaces are inserted. However, it seems that Thai may not follow this same trend (Winskel, Radach, & Luksaneeyanawin, 2009). One potential explanation is that Thai orthography may provide other cues that guide readers in …
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Individual differences in syntactic processing during reading: a psycholinguist’s “two disciplines” problem
… has sought to link individual differences in reading to individual differences in cognitive abilities. Put another way: how do cognitive differences between readers interact with syntactic processing effects observed across readers? This dissertation describes a single study in which 133 young …
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The effects of skill-based procedures on decreasing problem behavior with a 12-year-old boy with autism
… instructions along with increased duration of reading time. It can be concluded that skill-building can be used to decrease problem behavior in the environment. Also, the author discusss the benefits of teaching children with autism new skills that encourage tolerating denial and delay in the …
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