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Tarchi, Christian – Issues in Educational Research, 2017
The relative contribution of motivational and cognitive factors to reading comprehension might depend on how reading comprehension is measured. The participants in this study were 146 students attending grade 7. Students' reading comprehension of a history text was assessed through three measures, literal comprehension, inferential comprehension,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Reading Tests
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Desimoni, Marta; Scalisi, Teresa Gloria; Orsolini, Margherita – Learning and Instruction, 2012
A sample of 170 Italian children was assessed for reading accuracy, reading speed, text comprehension and spelling in Grades 1 and 3 in order to investigate the concurrent and longitudinal relationships among literacy skills. Main results from multivariate analyses (regression, discriminant and path analyses) indicated that reading speed was the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Predictor Variables, Correlation
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Mason, Lucia; Pluchino, Patrik; Tornatora, Maria Caterina; Ariasi, Nicola – Journal of Experimental Education, 2013
This study investigated the online process of reading and the offline learning from an illustrated science text. The authors examined the effects of using a concrete or abstract picture to illustrate a text and adopted eye-tracking methodology to trace text and picture processing. They randomly assigned 59 eleventh-grade students to 3 reading…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Grade 11, Pictorial Stimuli, Illustrations