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Gil, Laura; Braten, Ivar; Vidal-Abarca, Eduardo; Stromso, Helge I. – Reading Psychology, 2010
One of the major challenges of a knowledge society is that students as well as other citizens must learn to understand and integrate information from multiple textual sources. Still, task and reader characteristics that may facilitate or constrain such intertextual processes are not well understood by researchers. In this study, we compare the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Task Analysis, Individual Characteristics, Comparative Analysis
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Cervetti, Gina N.; Bravo, Marco A.; Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Pearson, P. David; Jaynes, Carolyn A. – Reading Psychology, 2009
This study examined ease of reading, comprehension, and recall and preference for the same scientific content under two conditions: an informational text and a fictional narrative text. Seventy-four third and fourth graders were assessed individually around the reading of fictional narrative and informational texts that were about either snails or…
Descriptors: Nonfiction, Literary Genres, Context Effect, Scientific and Technical Information
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Loyd, Brenda H.; Steele, Jeannie L. – Reading Psychology, 1986
Investigates whether standardized tests measure the same comprehension construct as free recall assessment techniques. (FL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, High Schools, Models