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Georgiou, George K.; Das, J. P. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
The present study aimed to examine the nature of the working memory and general cognitive ability deficits experienced by university students with a specific reading comprehension deficit. A total of 32 university students with poor reading comprehension but average word-reading skills and 60 age-word-matched controls with no comprehension…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, College Students, Reading Difficulties, Short Term Memory
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Haas, Christina; Hayes, John R. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1986
Relates how 16 "computer writers" felt about how they use the computer for writing tasks and reports on three experimental studies that compared the performance of college students reading texts displayed on a computer terminal screen and on a printed hard copy. Findings showed that visual/spatial factors influenced locational recall,…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Critical Reading, Higher Education, Information Retrieval