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Download full textAdams, Beverly Colwell; Wade, Melissa M. – 1996
A study investigated whether children and adolescents use commas and the principle of Late Closure to guide sentence parsing decisions as adults do in processing syntactically ambiguous sentences. The study consisted of three experiments, conducted similarly but with different subject groups: 24 university students; 24 fourth-graders; and 19…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Ambiguity
Kim, Dong-il – 1995
This study investigated construct validity and factorial invariance of a performance assessment of reading comprehension and writing proficiency through a multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) structure using confirmatory factor analysis. The performance assessment was administered to 1,023 fifth and sixth graders. Interrater reliability was examined for…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Construct Validity, Elementary School Students, Factor Structure
