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Download full textBurnham, Catherine A.; Anderson, Thomas H. – 1991
Two studies examined the validity of a model of procedural document processing, and the relationships among document features, reader characteristics, and successful completion of a button-sewing task. The first study tested three information sources. Subjects were 12 seventh-grade, 12 tenth-grade, and 12 adult students who used 2 commercially…
Descriptors: Adults, Grade 10, Grade 7, High Schools
Peer reviewedGarner, Ruth; Gillingham, Mark G. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1987
Examines students reported and demonstrated knowledge of three structural properties of text: topic relatedness, superordination, and cohesion. Reports students are only moderately knowledgeable about topic relatedness and superordination, and unknowledgeable about cohesion. (RS)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Grade 5, Grade 7, Intermediate Grades
Langer, Judith A. – 1989
A qualitative study examined the ways in which middle school and high school students create meanings when they are reading literary and non-literary texts. Subjects, 18 seventh-grade and 18 eleventh-grade students attending schools in an inner city or a suburban school district and judged by their teachers to be either above, at, or below average…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Grade 11, Grade 7, Prose
