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Peer reviewedTirre, William C.; Pena, Carmen M. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1992
Two experiments with approximately 377 newly enlisted Air Force personnel and 182 college students investigated the validity of a reading span test combining a knowledge verification task with a word memorization task. Results support the hypothesis that word recall reflects the amount of working memory functional in reading. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Testing, Higher Education, Knowledge Level
