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Identifying Clusters of Less-Skilled College Student Readers Based on Cognitive Processes
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Virginia Clinton-Lisell; Sarah E. Carlson; Heather Ness-Maddox; Amanda Dahl; Terrill Taylor; Mark L. Davison; Ben Seipel – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine clusters of less-skilled college readers. College students with below average reading comprehension skills (N = 77) read and thought aloud about four texts, recalled the texts, and completed standardized assessments of reading skills. Based on the findings of cluster analyses of the cognitive processes…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Processes
Identifying Clusters of Less-Skilled College Student Readers Based on Cognitive Processes
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Virginia Clinton-Lisell; Sarah E. Carlson; Heather Ness-Maddox; Amanda Dahl; Terrill Taylor; Mark L. Davison; Ben Seipel – Grantee Submission, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine clusters of less-skilled college readers. College students with below average reading comprehension skills (N = 77) read and thought aloud about four texts, recalled the texts, and completed standardized assessments of reading skills. Based on the findings of cluster analyses of the cognitive processes…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Reading Skills
Morphological Awareness Predicts Reading Comprehension in Adults
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Kotzer, Maddie; Kirby, John R.; Heggie, Lindsay – Reading Psychology, 2021
We investigated the contribution of morphological awareness to university students' reading comprehension ability. Although there is considerable evidence that morphological awareness contributes to children's reading ability, there is much less evidence concerning adults; the few studies of adults have not controlled other known predictors of…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Reading Comprehension, Predictor Variables
Examining Associations between Reading Motivation and Inference Generation beyond Reading Comprehension Skill
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Clinton, Virginia – Reading Psychology, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between reading motivation and inference generation while reading. Undergraduate participants (N = 69) read two science articles while thinking aloud, completed a standardized reading comprehension assessment, and self reported their habitual reading motivation. Findings indicate that…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Motivation, Inferences, Standards
Individual Differences in the Neural Basis of Causal Inferencing
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Prat, Chantel S.; Mason, Robert A.; Just, Marcel Adam – Brain and Language, 2011
This study used fMRI to examine individual differences in the neural basis of causal inferencing. Participants with varying language skill levels, as indexed by scores on the vocabulary portion of the Nelson-Denny Reading Test, read four types of two-sentence passages in which causal relatedness (moderate and distant) and presence or absence of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Rhetoric, Reading Tests
Predicting Inference Processes during Reading: A Multilevel Analysis of Text-Based and Reader-Based Factors
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Todaro, Stacey Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Inferences are important because not everything in the text is explicit. Therefore, the reader must generate inferences that fill in "missing" information. Various factors can influence inference processes, including those that are related to the text and reader. Moreover, these two factors are likely to interact in highly complex ways,…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Prior Learning, Statistical Analysis, Language Skills