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De Martin-Silva, L.; Fonseca, J.; Jones, R. L.; Morgan, K.; Mesquita, I. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
Despite recent attention, research is yet to adequately focus on sports coaches' intellectual development as a consequence of their formal learning experiences. Drawing on the work of Perry, the aim of this article was to explore how the intellectual development of undergraduate sports coaching students was affected by the social pedagogical…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Athletic Coaches, College Athletics, Intellectual Development
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Silva, Silvia Morales; Verhoeven, Ludo; van Leeuwe, Jan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
In this study, the socio-cultural variation in reading comprehension development was examined in 331 fifth graders from schools in Lima, Peru. Reading comprehension was measured using an adaptation of the PIRLS Reading Literacy test. The fifth graders' reading comprehension results, measured over the course of fifth grade, were related to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
Dixon, Carol N. – 1978
In an exploration of the comprehension process of the beginning reader, 16 first and second grade students were each asked to listen to two stories--one a narrative account and the other an expository passage-- and then immediately to retell them. Recall protocols were compared by propositional analysis for text-related superordinate and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Intellectual Development
Scottish Central Committee on Primary Education. – 1978
The purpose of this publication is to point out that reading comprehension questions frequently assess only literal comprehension, and to suggest kinds of questions that involve broader levels of comprehension. The publication first presents two reading passages; for each one it lists sample questions that involve only literal comprehension and…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Education, Intellectual Development, Questioning Techniques
Haring, Marilyn J.; Fry, Maurine A. – Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, 1979
Experimenters analyzed a prose passage into 350 idea units, then interspersed throughout the text pictures depicting main ideas, or both main ideas and nonessential details. For fourth- and sixth-grade subjects, pictures did facilitate both immediate and delayed recall, but only of main ideas. (Author/JEG)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary Education
Backman, Jarl – 1978
Swedes in four different age groups (9, 12, 15 and 18 years) judged written words which varied in three dimensions: syntactic category, objective frequency, and polysemy (multiple meaning). The subjects judged ease of comprehension of 24 words in a factorial arrangement. The method used was Thurstone's paired comparisons. A predicted complex…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Comprehension, Error Analysis (Language)
Read, Charles; And Others – 1978
This paper examines certain of the cues to surface constituency that are salient to children in the comprehension of syntactic structure. Accessibility is studied through a set of experiments requiring seven-year-old children to repeat certain syntactic constituents. These children can correctly identify subjects and also predicate phrases with…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Cues, Educational Research, Grade 2
Augstein, Sheila; Thomas, Laurie – 1976
This study discusses the importance of comprehension in reading and describes a tool for measuring reading comprehension according to an individual reader's "structures of meaning." The procedure for developing a visual representation of this structure involves three distinct steps. After reading the text, student and teacher employ techniques,…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Directed Reading Activity
Hopper, Robert; Tilghman, Peter P. – 1979
Three studies tested the ability of children of different ages to comprehend spoken sentences while viewing pictures that differed from the sentences according to some plausible combinations of actor, action, and beneficiary. In the first two studies, involving a total of 140 subjects, nine contextual conditions were used, including sentence only,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Cues, Early Childhood Education
Pearson, P. David; And Others – 1979
A series of three experiments with suburban elementary students tested the facilitative effect of metaphors on children's ability to understand and remember what they read. In the first study, sixth grade students read two unfamiliar passages and were able to recall metaphoric structures better than literal paraphrases of the same information. In…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Intellectual Development
Antier, Maurice – 1978
Comprehension for the foreign language learner is discussed, and it is claimed that comprehension is not a by-product of the other skills but should be taught and tested throughout a course of study. The channel or medium used in communication will influence the understanding of the message. Differences involved in reading and listening…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Comprehension
Anderson, Thomas H. – 1978
A review of the research on study techniques indicates that reading and generating questions from the material is an effective technique for ensuring better comprehension. Familiarity with a model of studying that divides studying into prereading, reading, and postreading provides one explanation for this effectiveness. In prereading, students…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Comprehension, Higher Education, Independent Study
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Bisanz, Jeffrey; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1978
A recognition memory experiment with 8-, 11- and 20-year-olds investigated the hypothesis that, with age, semantic encoding becomes increasingly important relative to acoustic encoding. (CM)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Comprehension
Levin, Joel R.; Pressley, Michael – 1978
Prose-learning strategies are classified in this paper as prose-dependent (those that authors can use to optimize communication) or processor-dependent (those that learners can use to optimize reception) and are cross-classified as stage-setting (those that prepare the learner for upcoming prose information) or storage-retrieval oriented (those…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Comprehension, Educational Media, Elementary Education
Peters, Charles – 1974
To determine whether the Frayer Model of Concept Attainment, which uses a systemic procedure for defining concepts and which structures materials in a manner designed to facilitate comprehension for both good and poor readers, is superior to a method of defining concepts employed by many social studies textbooks, a study involving 360 ninth…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Content Area Reading
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