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Direct linkCarlson, Sarah E.; Broek, Paul van den; McMaster, Kristen L. – Elementary School Journal, 2022
This study examines factors that influence readers' cognitive processing (i.e., inference generation) and the development of a mental representation of text: comprehension skill and working memory (WM). Elementary students (N = 61) participated in causal questioning conditions with narrative texts to examine text- and knowledge-based inferences…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Short Term Memory, Elementary School Students
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
Download full textClinton, Virginia; Taylor, Terrill; Bajpayee, Surjya; Davison, Mark L.; Carlson, Sarah E.; Seipel, Ben – Grantee Submission, 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
Dahl, Amanda C.; Carlson, Sarah E.; Renken, Maggie; McCarthy, Kathryn S.; Reynolds, Erin – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: Complex features of science texts present idiosyncratic challenges for middle grade readers, especially in a post-Common Core educational world where students' learning is dependent on understanding informational text. The primary aim of this study was to explore how middle school readers process science texts and whether such…
Descriptors: Science Materials, Textbooks, Difficulty Level, Readability
Davison, Mark L.; Biancarosa, Gina; Carlson, Sarah E.; Seipel, Ben; Liu, Bowen – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2018
The computer-administered Multiple-Choice Online Causal Comprehension Assessment (MOCCA) for Grades 3 to 5 has an innovative, 40-item multiple-choice structure in which each distractor corresponds to a comprehension process upon which poor comprehenders have been shown to rely. This structure requires revised thinking about measurement issues…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Pilot Projects, Measurement
Davison, Mark L.; Biancarosa, Gina; Carlson, Sarah E.; Seipel, Ben; Liu, Bowen – Grantee Submission, 2018
The computer-administered Multiple-Choice Online Causal Comprehension Assessment (MOCCA) for Grades 3 to 5 has an innovative, 40-item multiple-choice structure in which each distractor corresponds to a comprehension process upon which poor comprehenders have been shown to rely. This structure requires revised thinking about measurement issues…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Pilot Projects, Measurement
Carlson, Sarah E.; Seipel, Ben; Biancarosa, Gina; Davison, Mark L.; Clinton, Virginia – Grantee Submission, 2019
This demonstration introduces and presents an innovative online cognitive diagnostic assessment, developed to identify the types of cognitive processes that readers use during comprehension; specifically, processes that distinguish between subtypes of struggling comprehenders. Cognitive diagnostic assessments are designed to provide valuable…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Standardized Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Computer Assisted Testing
Clinton, Virginia; Carlson, Sarah E.; Seipel, Ben – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
Words can be informative linguistic markers of psychological constructs. The purpose of this study is to examine associations between word use and the process of making meaningful connections to a text while reading (i.e., inference generation). To achieve this purpose, think-aloud data from third-fifth grade students (N = 218) reading narrative…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Inferences, Grade 3, Grade 4
Clinton, Virginia; Seipel, Ben; Broek, Paul; McMaster, Kristen L.; Kendeou, Panayiota; Carlson, Sarah E.; Rapp, David N. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine if there are gender differences among elementary school-aged students in regard to the inferences they generate during reading. Fourth-grade students (130 females; 126 males) completed think-aloud tasks while reading one practice and one experimental narrative text. Females generated a larger number and a…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Protocol Analysis
Carlson, Sarah E.; van den Broek, Paul; McMaster, Kristen; Rapp, David N.; Bohn-Gettler, Catherine M.; Kendeou, Panayiota; White, Mary Jane – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate differences between readers with different levels of comprehension skill when engaging in a causal questioning activity during reading, and the varied effects on inference generation. Fourth-grade readers (n = 74) with different levels of comprehension skill read narrative texts aloud and were asked…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Inferences, Questioning Techniques, Elementary School Students
