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Peer reviewedLinderholm, Tracy; Everson, Michelle Gaddy; van den Brock, Paul; Mischinski, Maureen; Crittenden, Alex; Samuels, Jay – Cognition and Instruction, 2000
Investigated the effect of causal structure revisions to school texts on the comprehension of more- and less- skilled undergraduates. Found that readers at both skill levels benefited from the revisions but only for the difficult text. (JPB)
Descriptors: Readability, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedMcNamara, Danielle S.; And Others – Cognition and Instruction, 1996
Two experiments investigated the role of text coherence in junior high school students' comprehension of science texts. Found that text coherence improved readers' comprehension, but also that giving readers with sufficient background knowledge an incoherent text that forced them to infer unstated relations engaged them in compensatory processing,…
Descriptors: Coherence, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Inferences
