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Lee, Carol D.; Goldman, Susan R. – Theory Into Practice, 2015
This article addresses 3 broad challenges of assessment in reading comprehension: (a) explicitly articulating the knowledge and skills students need to recognize and be able to use in comprehending complex texts; (b) understanding how knowledge and skills progress and successively deepen and develop over repeated opportunities to engage in tasks…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Literature, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking
Hahn, Joan M.; Goldman, Susan R. – 1983
Developmental differences in summaries of expository texts were examined for fourth and sixth grade students in two experiments. Experiment 1 used texts that had a description content structure whereas Experiment 2 texts had a thesis/evidence content structure. Manipulation of the presence or absence of the topic sentence allowed the examination…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Content Analysis, Difficulty Level, Intermediate Grades