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Peer reviewedLehman, Stephen; Schraw, Gregory – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2002
Examines the effects of coherence and relevance on shallow and deeper text processing, testing the hypothesis that enhancing the relevance of text segments compensates for breaks in local and global coherence. Results reveal that breaks in local coherence had no effect on any outcome measures, whereas relevance enhanced deeper processing.…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Text Structure
