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Corrin Moss; Scott P. Ardoin; Joshua A. Mellott; Katherine S. Binder – Grantee Submission, 2023
The current study investigated the impact of manipulating reading strategy, reading the questions first (QF) or the passage first (PF), during a reading comprehension test, and we explored how reading strategy was related to student characteristics. Participants' eye movements were monitored as they read 12 passages and answered multiple-choice…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Accuracy, Grade 8, Reading Tests
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Wang, Zuowei; Sabatini, John; O'Reilly, Tenaha; Weeks, Jonathan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
We report results of 2 studies examining the relation between decoding and reading comprehension. Based on our analysis of prominent reading theories such as the Simple View of Reading (Gough & Tunmer, 1986), the Lexical Quality Hypothesis (Perfetti & Hart, 2002) and the Self-Teaching Hypothesis (Share, 1995), we propose the Decoding…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Reading Comprehension, Grade 5, Grade 6
Wang, Zuowei; Sabatini, John; O'Reilly, Tenaha; Weeks, Jonathan – Grantee Submission, 2018
We report results of two studies examining the relation between decoding and reading comprehension. Based on our analysis of prominent reading theories such as the Simple View of Reading (Gough & Tunmer, 1986), the Lexical Quality Hypothesis (Perfetti & Hart, 2002) and the Self-teaching Hypothesis (Share, 1995), we propose the Decoding…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Reading Comprehension, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Goodwin, Amanda P.; Petscher, Yaacov; Carlisle, Joanne F.; Mitchell, Alison M. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
This study examined the dimensionality of morphological knowledge. The performance of 371 seventh- and eighth-graders on seven morphological knowledge tasks was investigated using confirmatory factor analysis. Results suggested that morphological knowledge was best fit by a bifactor model with a general factor of morphological knowledge and seven…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Grade 7, Grade 8, Factor Analysis
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Richter, Juliane; Scheiter, Katharina; Eitel, Alexander – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
Multimedia integration signals highlight correspondences between text and pictures with the aim of supporting learning from multimedia. A recent meta-analysis revealed that only learners with low domain-specific prior knowledge benefit from multimedia integration signals. To more thoroughly investigate the influence of prior knowledge on the…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Prior Learning, Quasiexperimental Design, Textbooks
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Donne, Vicki; Rugg, Natalie – Volta Review, 2015
Previous research on reading perceptions and strategy use involving narrative texts among students attending schools for the deaf provides some information on comprehension strategies used. None of these studies, however, involved students using speech to communicate or receiving instruction in the general education. This study extends that…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Reading Comprehension, Grade 4
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Parodi, Giovanni – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
As reading and writing are both language processes, one can assume relationships between them, but the exact nature of these relationships has not yet been determined. While a large body of research has addressed reading comprehension and written production independently, very little investigation has examined the possible relationships between…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Writing Processes, Correlation, Language Processing