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Guerrero, Tricia A.; Griffin, Thomas D.; Wiley, Jennifer – Grantee Submission, 2020
The Predict-Observe-Explain (POE) learning cycle improves understanding of the connection between empirical results and theoretical concepts when students engage in hands-on experimentation. This study explored whether training students to use a POE strategy when learning from social science texts that describe theories and experimental results…
Descriptors: Prediction, Observation, Reading Comprehension, Correlation
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Key-DeLyria, Sarah E. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: Sentence processing can be affected following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) due to linguistic or cognitive deficits. Language-related event-related potentials (ERPs), particularly the P600, have not been described in individuals with TBI history. Method: Four young adults with a history of closed head injury participated. Two had severe…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Processing, Head Injuries, Neurological Impairments
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Zhang, Dongbo; Koda, Keiko – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
Within the Structural Equation Modeling framework, this study tested the direct and indirect effects of morphological awareness and lexical inferencing ability on L2 vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension among advanced Chinese EFL readers in a university in China. Using both regular z-test and the bootstrapping (data-based resampling)…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Structural Equation Models, Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development
National Institute for Literacy, 2010
Included here are two appendixes to "Adult Education Literacy Instruction: A Review of the Research." Appendix A, "Adult Studies," contains: (1) Assessment Profiles; (2) Alphabetics; (3) Fluency; (4) Vocabulary; and (5) Comprehension. Appendix B, "Adolescent Studies," contains: (1) Alphabetics; (2) Fluency; (3) Vocabulary; and (4) Comprehension.…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Adult Education, Literacy, Educational Research