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Singer, Marti; Etter-Lewis, Gwendolyn – 1986
In a study designed to further define individual differences in reading comprehension, 200 students enrolled in developmental reading courses at a large urban university participated in an experiment that investigated the relationship between personality type and reading comprehension. The students took a reading comprehension test consisting of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Learning Processes
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Direct linkNaceur, Abdelmajid; Schiefele, Ulrich – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2005
The present work examined the influence of topic interest on the strength of different components of text representation and long-term retention according to the model of text processing by van Dijk and Kintsch (1983). A Series of relevant personality characteristics were assessed to control for alternative explanations of interest effect, A total…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Student Interests, Student Motivation, Retention (Psychology)
