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Torgesen, Joseph K. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1978
Reviews psychometric and experimental studies of performance differences on serial memory tasks between skilled and less skilled readers. Offers basic criticisms of the psychometric approach and discusses the experimental research within the context of a general model of short term memory. (AA)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Literature Reviews, Memory, Performance Factors
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Wickelgren, Wayne A. – Psychological Review, 1976
The notion of strength is defined in several alternative ways for chains of associations connected in series and in parallel. Network strength theory is extended to handle retrieval dynamics for a network of associations, in a manner that permits various degrees of serial versus parallel manner that permits various degrees of serial versus…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Auditory Perception, Information Processing, Information Retrieval
Pike, Ruth – 1977
This paper examines the relationship between strategies for recall of verbal material and the reading ability of 10-to-13-year-old children. Sixty-five fifth and sixth graders, whose reading levels were determined by the Gates-MacGinitie Comprehension Test (1964), were given an orally presented word-string repetition task. While performance on…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Grade 5, Grade 6