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Download full textReinking, David; And Others – 1996
A study investigated the effects of inserting questions in a computer-mediated text that required readers to review relevant portions of the text when a question was answered incorrectly. Undergraduate students (n=36) served as their own controls while reading a scientific text under 3 treatment conditions that varied as to the consequences of an…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Text, Higher Education, Questioning Techniques
Zoreda, Margaret Lee – 1995
A study expanded on earlier research into "envisionment," defined as "a personal text-world embodying all the reader understands, assumes, or imagines up to that point in the reading," in learners of English as a second language (ESL). Five Mexican engineering students performed think-aloud protocols while reading a short…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Collier, Janet C. – 1995
This report describes a cross-age tutoring program implemented to improve reading comprehension skills in a group of regular students in a rural elementary school. A targeted group of four fifth-grade students and four second-grade students were matched for cross-age tutoring sessions. The students developed reading comprehension skills through…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 5
Riccobono, Rossella – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1996
This article analyzes the function of deixis in the poetry of the 20th century Italian, Eugenio Montale, in particular, his "In limine." The main objective is to show how deixis is involved in the dynamic relationship between text and reader. A constant problem in Montale's texts is that of a disharmony felt by the poetic voice with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Rhythm, Literary Criticism, Literary Styles
Novemsky, Lisa; Gautreau, Ronald – 1997
Physics learning involves a change in the habitual perception of the everyday world. In order to describe the real world scientifically, an individual must develop perception and cognition capable of reconstructing the world from raw sensory data and incorporating acquired knowledge of the scientific community. The introductory physics student…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Concept Formation
Gao, Xiaohong – 1996
The use of the Work Keys Listening and Writing Assessment, part of an assessment system of the generic employability skills of individuals, needs to be accompanied by systematic evaluation of its technical qualities. This study examined sampling variability and generalizability of Listening and Writing scores when multiple forms, raters, and…
Descriptors: Adults, Difficulty Level, Generalization, Job Skills
Nichols, William Dee; And Others – 1997
The influence of word recognition and conceptual knowledge on readers' comprehension of narrative text has become a fundamental assumption associated with text processing in the primary grades. Features of conceptual knowledge such as prior knowledge, content knowledge, domain knowledge, and discourse knowledge are believed to be significant…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decoding (Reading), Grade 4, Grade 5
Kletzien, Sharon B.; Taylor, Sharon J. – 1992
A study determined what comprehension strategies either contributed to literary engagement or inhibited engagement among adolescents. Subjects, 25 eleventh-grade students chosen at random from two heterogeneous English classes in a suburban school, read two short stories and reported their thinking and understanding as they were reading.…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 11, High School Students, High Schools
Dagostino, Lorraine; Carifio, James M. – 1993
A study established the logical validity of instructional activities for teaching reading evaluatively. These activities operationalized a theory of literacy and a model of reading comprehension developed by L. Dagostino and J. Carifio that specify 20 general characteristics of literate students who read evaluatively. Nineteen secondary classroom…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Critical Reading, Literacy, Models
Charmello, Catherine – 1993
A study examined the effects that a metacognitive strategy, self-questioning prediction, had on the improvement of reading comprehension. The sample included 17 eighth-grade students in a South Amboy, New Jersey middle school. The Gates MacGinitie Reading Comprehension Tests were administered as both pre- and posttests. There were three weekly…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Instructional Effectiveness, Junior High Schools, Metacognition
Usen, Tracey H. – 1993
A study investigated whether comprehension would be affected by utilizing prereading strategies. Subjects were 57 students (low level 11th graders) in 4 classes. Two classes, totaling 29 students, utilized prereading strategies before 2 units of study. In the other 2 classes, with 28 usable subjects, no prereading activities were used prior to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Comparative Analysis, Grade 11, High School Students
Reed, Keflyn X. – 1994
A survey was administered in September 1994 to 226 students enrolled in reading courses at Bishop State Community College to gain information about the students' reading habits and experiences and their expectations from the courses in which they were enrolled. Results indicated that: (1) math was chosen by 29% of subjects as their favorite…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Reading Attitudes, Reading Comprehension, Reading Habits
Newark Board of Education, NJ. – 1986
This compilation presents material related to Project Read-Write, a basic skills program for grades 2-7 which utilizes students' attitudes and experiences and is designed to promote total reading comprehension through writing. It is noted in the compilation that although the program was developed in an urban area (Newark, New Jersey), it can be…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education, Program Descriptions
Thrond, Mary A. – 1994
The annotated bibliography contains citations of nine references on alternative student assessment methods in second language programs, particularly at the secondary school level. The references include a critique of conventional reading comprehension assessment, a discussion of performance assessment, a proposal for a multi-trait, multi-method…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Annotated Bibliographies, Classroom Environment, Evaluation Methods
Manzo, Anthony V.; And Others – 1995
Focusing on better assessing the thinking, or meaning-making, aspects of reading that are emphasized in current views of the reading process, this book presents the Informal Reading-Thinking Inventory (IR-TI) which offers options to enhance assessment beyond assessing students' listening level, oral reading of words, and basic comprehension. The…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Critical Reading, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories
