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Magliano, Joseph P.; Lampi, Jodi P.; Ray, Melissa; Chan, Greta – Grantee Submission, 2020
Coherent mental models for successful comprehension require inferences that establish semantic "bridges" between discourse constituents and "elaborations" that incorporate relevant background knowledge. While it is established that individual differences in the extent to which postsecondary students engage in these processes…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Inferences, Reading Tests
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Allen, Laura K.; Perret, Cecile; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2016
The relationship between working memory capacity and writing ability was examined via a linguistic analysis of student essays. Undergraduate students (n = 108) wrote timed, prompt-based essays and completed a battery of cognitive assessments. The surface- and discourse-level linguistic features of students' essays were then analyzed using natural…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Writing (Composition), Short Term Memory, Writing Ability