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Nie, Bruce; Deacon, Hélène; Fyshe, Alona; Epp, Carrie Demmans – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
A child's ability to understand text (reading comprehension) can greatly impact both their ability to learn in the classroom and their future contributions to society. Reading comprehension draws on oral language; behavioural measures of knowledge at the word and sentence levels have been shown to be related to children's reading comprehension. In…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Word Order, Sentence Structure, Grade 3
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Sinclair, Jeanne; Jang, Eunice Eunhee; Rudzicz, Frank – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Advances in machine learning (ML) are poised to contribute to our understanding of the linguistic processes associated with successful reading comprehension, which is a critical aspect of children's educational success. We used ML techniques to investigate and compare associations between children's reading comprehension and 260 linguistic…
Descriptors: Prediction, Reading Comprehension, Natural Language Processing, Speech Communication
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Olney, Andrew M.; Pavlik, Philip I., Jr.; Maass, Jaclyn K. – Grantee Submission, 2017
This study investigated the effect of cloze item practice on reading comprehension, where cloze items were either created by humans, by machine using natural language processing techniques, or randomly. Participants from Amazon Mechanical Turk (N = 302) took a pre-test, read a text, and took part in one of five conditions, Do-Nothing, Re-Read,…
Descriptors: Reading Improvement, Reading Comprehension, Prior Learning, Cloze Procedure