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Pahl, Michele M. – 1987
Proceeding from a definition of "story schema" as an idealized internal representation of the parts of a typical story and the relationships among those parts, this paper explores the role of story schemata in reading comprehension. The paper also identifies variables that may affect the way in which schemata function and outlines the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Listening Skills
Download full textFeltovich, Paul J.; Patel, Vimla L. – 1984
Trends in emphases in the study of clinical reasoning are examined, with attention to three major branches of research: problem-solving, knowledge engineering, and propositional analysis. There has been a general progression from a focus on the generic form of clinical reasoning to an emphasis on medical content that supports the reasoning…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Psychology
Ehri, Linnea C. – 1985
Focusing on research about children's acquisition of reading and spelling skills, this paper discusses the larger picture of reading acquisition, issues addressed by research, and results of this research. The paper cites numerous studies on the subject, including studies on whether environmental print experiences enable young children to process…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Early Reading, Elementary Education
Reed, Linda, Ed.; Ward, Spencer, Ed. – 1982
Resulting from a project involving district, state, and federal educational agencies, the papers in this, the second of two volumes, are intended to provide information from research and practice that can help school districts in their efforts to make decisions about goals and methods of basic skills instruction. The topics of the papers in the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Brown, Kenneth L.; And Others – 1979
The first of two related documents, this volume reviews the state of the art of assessment in speaking and listening and recommends guidelines for evaluation and development of testing instruments. The first chapter recommends criteria for evaluating assessment instruments and practices; the second chapter reviews 71 published and unpublished…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Listening Comprehension Tests, Listening Skills, Mastery Tests
Peer reviewedAbu-Rabia, Salim – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1995
Reading comprehension experiments suggest that cultural content means little to Arab students reading in a second language (English). The students did just as well or better reading stories with no Arabic content. The study also found significant differences in the learning strategies of male and female Arab students. (MJP)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Arabs, Cultural Background, Cultural Interrelationships
Peer reviewedBrindley, Geoff – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1998
This review of research on assessment of second-language listening abilities looks at some testing issues and challenges (assessing higher-level skills, confounding of skills, assessing listening in oral interaction, authenticity), discusses assessment methods and techniques (test administration, item formats), and considers potential applications…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Technology, Language Research, Language Tests
Best, Linda – 1990
Seven research-based papers on writing disorders of learning-disabled college students are listed and reviewed. The papers deal with persistent auditory language deficits in adults with learning disabilities; error patterns and instructional alternatives relating to college learning-disabled writers; syntactic complexity in written expression;…
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Comprehension, Computer Uses in Education
Williamson, Leon E. – 1983
Concerned with what can be done to help produce more thoughtful, critical readers, this report first presents an historical overview of theories on the origin of language, referring to B. F. Skinner, Noam Chomsky, and Jean Piaget, among others. It then discusses biological reasons for the evolution of language and the impact of verbal language on…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Decoding (Reading)
Frederiksen, Carl H. – 1987
Noting that conceptions of the cognitive representations and processes involved in discourse comprehension and production recently have undergone an important shift in orientation, this paper points out the importance of the shift to the conception of the nature of texts, of text understanding, and of cognitive processes in knowledge creation and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Computer Oriented Programs, Discourse Analysis
Negin, Gary A. – 1987
Noting that accurate procedures for predicting reading ability in school settings are necessary for a variety of purposes, this paper reviews methods for predicting reading ability and presents a new, more precise model for use at the second grade level. First, the paper defines reading expectancy as an informed estimate of the level of reading…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Grade 2, Individual Testing
Pearson, P. David, Ed.; Hansen, Jane, Ed. – 1978
The papers in this collection represent a wide spectrum of approaches, philosophies, viewpoints, and techniques of scholarly endeavor in their treatment of reading and its cognitive processes. The 48 articles, presented at the 1977 meeting of the National Reading Conference, are arranged according to the following categories: (1) reading and…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
MacKinnon, G. E., Ed.; Waller, T. Gary, Ed. – 1981
Intended to provide a publication outlet for systematic and substantive reviews and syntheses, both empirical and theoretical, and for integrative reports of programatic research, this volume focuses on what children learn when learning to read, and how this learning can be facilitated. The first chapter of the volume offers an analysis of writing…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Content Analysis, Early Reading
Katz, Lilian G., Ed.; And Others – 1979
The ten papers in this volume present integrative reviews, analyses and syntheses of research and development of current concern to early childhood educators. Four papers represent investigations and reports of programmatic or educational activities. House and Hutchins critically analyze Abt Associates' national evaluation of Project Follow…
Descriptors: Child Development, Comprehension, Day Care, Developmental Psychology
Lee, Gabriel A. – Online Submission, 2002
Rauding theory states that two factors, accuracy and rate, explain nearly all the variance in the general reading ability of American schoolchildren (Carver, 1999). Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and regression, this dissertation investigated to what extent the Rauding model could be applied to 92 Japanese university aged young adults…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Word Recognition, Reading Ability
