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Direct linkMellard, Daryl F.; Fall, Emily; Woods, Kari L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
Adult literacy interventions often rely on models of reading validated with children or adult populations with a broad range of reading abilities. Such models do not fully satisfy the need for intervention research and development for adults with low literacy. Thus, the authors hypothesized that a model representing the relationship between…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Adult Basic Education, Path Analysis, Adult Literacy
Schmeichel, Brandon J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2007
This research tested the hypothesis that initial efforts at executive control temporarily undermine subsequent efforts at executive control. Four experiments revealed that controlling the focus of visual attention (Experiment 1), inhibiting predominant writing tendencies (Experiment 2), taking a working memory test (Experiment 3), or exaggerating…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Memory, Attention, Hypothesis Testing
