The purpose of this study was to explore how students with high- and low-prior-knowledge employed multiple representations in argumentation evaluation and generation tasks. The argumentation performance and eye-movement behaviors of 96 college students in these tasks were investigated. The number of participants who proposed complex argumentation…

The present experiment measured the effects that shadowing (repeating aloud) a series of aurally presented items has on the reading process. (Author/RK)

Two experiments tracked the acquisition of skilled reading as college students read as many as 160 pages of geometrically inverted text and assessed the consequence for memory of skill at reading. Results were interpreted in terms that emphasized an operational basis to memory--pattern-analyzing procedures rather than conscious contents.…

Attempts to develop a method for investigating the process of phonemic encoding and explores the structural and linguistic variables that influence the length of time required for phonemic translation of sequences of graphemes. (Author/RK)

This study proposed to determine the relative value of two specific techniques of instruction in the social studies, reading and listening, when the factors of varying levels of intelligence and reading ability, and sex were considered. (Author)

The reading process incorporates three factors: images registered in visual sensory memory, semantic analysis in short-term memory, and long-term memory storage. The focus here is on the contribution of sensory memory to reading performance. (Author/RK)

Considers whether any sort of orthographic mechanism is used by fluent readers. (Author/RK)

Samples of the speech of infant school children in a story recall task were analysed, and a moderately reliable measure of the structural complexity was devised. (Editor)

The basic hypothesis of these experiments was that the processing strategy for the transfer of alphabetic material from iconic storage to short-term memory involves a sequential left-to-right factor that develops with increases in experience with reading. (Author)

Describes a study to determine the relationship between the method of presentation of data in a report and reader retention, reader reaction, and reading time. Tables were effective in increasing reader retention and decreasing reading time. (JOW)

Keyboard musicians sight-read passages of music in which the amount of information about the presence of phrase units was systematically varied. Results suggest a clear analogy between the cognition of music and language, in that knowledge of abstract structure is of importance in the organization of immediate visual processing of text. (Editor/RK)

It was the purpose of this study to compare the concepts of reading given by children defined as "good" readers and "poor" readers. (Author)

Results suggested that the ability to manipulate the phonetic components of the spoken language has an important bearing on the development of reading skill. (Authors)

The purpose of this study was to examine the assembly and system models of reading with respect to the development of phoneme-grapheme association skills in normal and disabled readers. (Author)

The present research was based on the premise that reading comprehension involves complex organizational strategies on the part of the reader, through which he detects meanings and interrelationships of the substantive material within the passage. (Author)