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Direct linkMcCarthy, Kathryn S.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Educational Psychologist, 2021
Prior knowledge is one of the strongest contributors to comprehension, but there is little specificity about different aspects of prior knowledge and how they impact comprehension. This article introduces the Multidimensional Knowledge in Text Comprehension framework, which conceptualizes prior knowledge along four intersecting dimensions: amount,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Prior Learning, Knowledge Level, Accuracy
Download full textMcCarthy, Kathryn S.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Prior knowledge is one of the strongest contributors to comprehension, but there is little specificity about different aspects of prior knowledge and how they impact comprehension. This article introduces the Multidimensional Knowledge in Text Comprehension framework, which conceptualizes prior knowledge along four intersecting dimensions: amount,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Prior Learning, Knowledge Level, Accuracy
Allen, Laura K.; Mills, Caitlin; Perret, Cecile; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study examines the extent to which instructions to self-explain vs. "other"-explain a text lead readers to produce different forms of explanations. Natural language processing was used to examine the content and characteristics of the explanations produced as a function of instruction condition. Undergraduate students (n = 146)…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Science Instruction, Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods
