A model of generative learning suggests teachers must be aware that students learn what they construct from teaching, not necessarily what teachers are teaching. The study of student thought processes upon a base of neural, cognitive and educational research leads to improved instruction and furthers the goal of universal education. (MT)

Five studies were carried out to analyze role of short-term storage in reading of organized text. By interrupting the subject's reading with a distractor task, information that was being carried in short-term storage was removed. It was found that this interruption effect could be countered by giving the subject the last one or two sentences that…

Calls into question the assumptions (1) that those who read unfamiliar text use analytic processing more than do those who read familiar text and (2) that introspective reporting interferes with comprehension. (FL)

Examines the relationship between preschool children's (n = 96) cognitive processing of video (V) and audio (A) information on television under four conditions: A/V match, A/V mismatch, V alone, and A alone. Results suggest that in regular television programs the video material simply appears to be more salient and more memorable than the audio…

Reports on a study that investigated the effect of readers' abilities to be creative on their abilities to make inferences in reading prose passages. (FL)

Concludes that (1) knowing whether we comprehend as we read is indispensible to the process of understanding itself; and (2) without self-monitoring, there can be little textbook learning and even less hope for informed participation in democracy. (FL)

Reviews recent ERIC materials on comprehension monitoring. (FL)

The objective of this study is to summarize Israeli children's information and interpretation of the 1973 Middle East War while the intense fighting was in process. (Author/KM)

Mature reading is a process based on semantic and syntactic clues that enable the reader to resolve ambiguities and correctly comprehend the material. (MF)

The normal" six-year old has control of all aspects of his language when he begins attending school. The teacher must expand these skills. (MF)

Investigates children's knowledge of the role of message quality in referential communication and their ability to evaluate the accuracy of a listener's feedback about his/her comprehension. Children evaluated a puppet listener's comprehension after they had given complete or inadequate directions and received his report that he did or did not…

In three studies, children between five and ten years of age listened to short stories and answered questions about presented and implied information. Results demonstrated how hypothesis generation, comprehension monitoring, clue integration, and converging evidence influence children's developing inferential reasoning. (Author/MP)

Argues that confusion in understanding the process of listening can be alleviated by adopting an information processing approach to listening. Presents a model and discusses listening strategies. (PD)

Findings indicate that, when skimming, readers find it difficult to perceptually select from a passage information that is relevant to their goal in skimming. There was a reaction time advantage for verification of gist-relevant information as opposed to details, which tended to increase with reading rate. (Author/PN)