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Clinton, Virginia; Taylor, Terrill; Bajpayee, Surjya; Davison, Mark L.; Carlson, Sarah E.; Seipel, Ben – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Inferential comprehension is necessary to connect ideas in a text together in a meaningful manner. There have been multiple studies on inferential comprehension involving texts of different genres (narrative and expository), but not a coherent overview of the findings of inferential comprehension by genre. The purpose of this study is to provide a…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Expository Writing, Meta Analysis
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Kulikowich, Jonna M.; Mason, Linda H.; Brown, Scott W. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008
Drawing from multiple theoretical frameworks representing cognitive and educational psychology, we present a writing task and scoring system for measurement of students' informative writing. Participants in this study were 72 fifth- and sixth-grade students who wrote compositions describing real-world problems and how mathematics, science, and…
Descriptors: World Problems, Expository Writing, Educational Psychology, Validity