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Kayrn P. Higgs; Alecia M. Santuzzi; Cody Gibson; Ryan D. Kopatich; Daniel P. Feller; Joseph P. Magliano – Grantee Submission, 2023
Reading is typically guided by a task or goal (e.g., studying for a test, writing a paper). A reader's task awareness arises from their mental representation of the task and plays an important role in guiding reading processes, ultimately influencing comprehension outcomes and task success. As such, a better understanding of how task awareness…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Task Analysis, Mediation Theory
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McCarthy, Kathryn S.; Hinze, Scott R. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2021
The use of active comprehension strategies that encourage students to explain what they have read can improve students' comprehension of complex scientific texts. Most research has focused on either strategies that are engaged during reading (online) or those used after reading (offline)--often ignoring potential interactions that might occur in…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Scientific and Technical Information, Authentic Learning
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Magliano, Joseph P.; Lampi, Jodi P.; Ray, Melissa; Chan, Greta – Grantee Submission, 2020
Coherent mental models for successful comprehension require inferences that establish semantic "bridges" between discourse constituents and "elaborations" that incorporate relevant background knowledge. While it is established that individual differences in the extent to which postsecondary students engage in these processes…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Inferences, Reading Tests
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Rogne, Wenke M.; Gamlem, Siv M. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
A think-aloud study investigated 7th graders' (N = 30) information processing and seeking of feedback while reading four multiple partly contradictory texts. An extreme-case analysis shows that a highly-skilled reader uses deeper strategies, such as elaboration, evaluation, and paraphrasing of less contradictory information, than a less-skilled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Protocol Analysis, Self Management, Grade 7
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Máñez, Ignacio; Vidal-Abarca, Eduardo; Kendeou, Panayiota; Martínez, Tomás – Metacognition and Learning, 2019
The goal of this study was to examine how students process formative feedback that included corrective and elaborative information in online question-answering tasks. Skilled and less-skilled comprehenders in grade 8 read texts and answered comprehension questions. Prior to responding, students were asked to select the textual information relevant…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Questioning Techniques, Task Analysis
Joseph P. Magliano; Lauren Flynn; Daniel P. Feller; Kathryn S. McCarthy; Danielle S. McNamara; Laura Allen – Grantee Submission, 2022
The goal of this study was to assess the relationships between computational approaches to analyzing constructed responses made during reading and individual differences in the foundational skills of reading in college readers. We also explored if these relationships were consistent across texts and samples collected at different institutions and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Individual Differences, Reading Materials
Tonks, Stephen M.; Magliano, Joseph P.; Schwartz, John; Kopatich, Ryan D. – Grantee Submission, 2021
In two studies, we explored the associations among situational reading-related competence beliefs and task value, inference strategies, comprehension during reading, and foundational skills in college age students. In Study 1, 93 participants from a community college completed assessments of comprehension and two types of inference strategies…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Processes, Reading Strategies, Community Colleges
Ryan D. Kopatich; Joseph P. Magliano; Keith K. Millis; Christopher P. Parker; Melissa Ray – Grantee Submission, 2019
A large body of work has demonstrated that reader resources influence inference processes and comprehension, but few models of comprehension have accounted for such resources. The Direct and Mediational Inference model of comprehension (DIME) assumes that general inference processes mediate the effects of reader resources on general comprehension…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Models, College Students
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Ryan D. Kopatich; Joseph P. Magliano; Keith K. Millis; Christopher P. Parker; Melissa Ray – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
A large body of work has demonstrated that reader resources influence inference processes and comprehension, but few models of comprehension have accounted for such resources. The Direct and Mediational Inference model of comprehension (DIME) assumes that general inference processes mediate the effects of reader resources on general comprehension…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Intelligence Tests, Inferences, Reading Comprehension
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Behtash, Esmail Zare; Barabadi, Akram; Eskandari, Zahra – Issues in Educational Research, 2019
This study was conducted to identify the kinds and frequencies of comprehension strategies mathematics and psychology students employed while reading specialised and nonspecialised English texts. It also investigated whether the two groups differed in the amount and frequency of using the strategies. Ten graduate students (five majoring in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies
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Al-Qahtani, Abdulaziz Ali – English Language Teaching, 2020
The current study's objective examines the effectiveness of using a Think-Aloud strategy in improving Saudi EFL learners' reading comprehension and attitudes towards learning. A quantitative study with a quasi-experimental design was implemented through applying two different instruments: Reading Comprehension Skills Test and Attitude Scale…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Salehomoum, Maryam – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Studies of proficient readers have shown that the use of certain strategies (e.g., relating personal background knowledge to text, attending to headings and images, and summarizing) is important for comprehension of challenging texts (Afflerbach, Pearson, & Paris, 2017; Duke et al., 2011; Goldman et al., 2016; Shanahan, Shanahan, &…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Instructional Effectiveness
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Grindle, Corinna; Kurzeja, Olivia; Tyler, Emily; Saville, Maria; Hughes, J. Carl; Hastings, Richard P.; Brown, Freddy Jackson – Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2020
Children with autism often exhibit difficulties with reading comprehension. Recent studies have demonstrated positive outcomes for typical learners from the internet-based reading comprehension program, Headsprout Reading Comprehensiont. In the present study, a preliminary evaluation of HRC was conducted with six children with autism. The primary…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Kremmel, Benjamin; Brunfaut, Tineke; Alderson, J. Charles – Applied Linguistics, 2017
Foreign language (FL) knowledge has been shown to contribute significantly to FL reading performance. Studies have contrasted the contribution of FL vocabulary and syntactic knowledge, following a dichotomous view of these components, producing mixed results. Despite the increasingly recognized formulaic nature of language, the contribution made…
Descriptors: Role, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Severino, Lori; Tecce DeCarlo, Mary Jean; Sondergeld, Toni; Izzetoglu, Meltem; Ammar, Alia – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2018
A student's reading skill is essential to learning. Assessing reading skills, specifically comprehension, is difficult. In the middle grades, students read to learn; and their teachers need a quick, easy assessment that provides immediate data on reading comprehension skill. This study explores the holistic validation approach of one eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Reading Instruction, Middle School Students
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