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Peer reviewedGoerss, Betty L.; Beck, Isabel L.; McKeown, Margaret G. – Reading Psychology, 1999
Evaluates five less-skilled readers in grades five and six. Uses a word-meaning acquisition task before and after instructional intervention to assess the effectiveness of students' process of deriving word meaning from context. Concludes that all five students improved on every component of the task. (SC)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Grade 5, Grade 6, Individual Instruction
Peer reviewedMcKeown, Margaret G.; Beck, Isabel L. – American Educational Research Journal, 1990
The knowledge that 35 fifth graders and 37 sixth graders had about a historical period was characterized by focusing on the fifth graders before they studied the Revolutionary War, and sixth graders 1 year after they studied the topic. Students' knowledge before and after instruction included simple associations and lacked connected structures.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
Peer reviewedBeck, Isabel L. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1991
Uses a cognitive processing perspective to revise fifth grade social studies texts, to describe those revisions, and to demonstrate their effects empirically. Finds that students reading the revised text recalled more material and answered more questions correctly than did those reading the original text. Concludes that a text-processing approach…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Grade 4, Grade 5
