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| Journal of Reading Behavior | 8 |
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| Carver, Ronald P. | 2 |
| Coke, Esther U. | 1 |
| Fishman, Anne Stevens | 1 |
| Gillooly, William B. | 1 |
| Rankin, Earl F. | 1 |
| Rankin, Joan L. | 1 |
| Sassenrath, J. M. | 1 |
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| Journal Articles | 3 |
| Reports - Research | 2 |
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Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1976
Finds no support for a widely-held theory relating redundancy to reading rate and eye movements. (Author/RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Eye Movements, Higher Education, Readability
Peer reviewedGillooly, William B. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1971
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Orthographic Symbols, Phonemes, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedCoke, Esther U. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1977
To determine whether the connectedness of prose passages had any effect on the behavior of readers who searched for information in the passages, the behavior of readers who saw the normal arrangement of a passage was contrasted with the behavior of readers who saw the random arrangement of the passage. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Context Clues, Lexicology
Peer reviewedSassenrath, J. M. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1972
Discusses several factors of reading ability and their interrelationships at elementary, secondary, and college levels. (TO)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Development
Peer reviewedFishman, Anne Stevens – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1978
According to a theory of textual cohesion, anaphoric references and noun phrase organizers may serve as cohesive ties linking separate sentences into unified paragraphs. This study revealed that only the noun phrase organizer condition was significant in promoting comprehension and indicated no difference in time scores by paragraph condition.…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Nouns, Paragraphs
Peer reviewedRankin, Joan L. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1993
Examines information-processing differences among four types of readers differing in reading comprehension and speed. Finds that good comprehenders outperformed poor comprehenders on all types of tasks, but the results were less clear for the high- and low-speed readers. Proposes differences in working memory as a source of individual differences…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedRankin, Earl F. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1971
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Diagnosis
Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1993
Merges the Simple View of reading with rauding theory by advancing a revision, called Simple View II. Presents empirical evidence that, when the Simple View II is merged with rauding theory, the result is a theoretical framework which includes interrelationships among all of the important constructs involved in reading ability, for students in…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Language Processing
