NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Cunningham, James W.; Mesmer, Heidi Anne – Elementary School Journal, 2014
Common Core Reading Standard 10 not only prescribes the difficulty of texts students should become able to read, but also the difficulty diet of texts schools should ask their students to read across the school year. The use of quantitative text-assessment tools in the implementation of this standard warrants an examination into the validity of…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Academic Standards, State Standards, Statistical Analysis
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
O'Reilly, Tenaha; McNamara, Danielle S. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
Students with low knowledge have been shown to better understand and learn more from more cohesive texts, whereas high-knowledge students have been shown to learn more from lower cohesion texts; this has been called the "reverse cohesion effect". This study examines whether students' comprehension skill affects the interaction between…
Descriptors: Interaction, Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Knowledge Level