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Peer reviewedMcNamara, Danielle S.; Kintsch, Walter – Discourse Processes, 1996
Investigates effects of prior knowledge on learning from high- and low-coherence history texts. Examines participants' comprehension in two experiments. Finds high-knowledge readers performed better on open-ended questions after reading low-coherence text. Indicates that low-coherence text requires more inference processes--these inferences are…
Descriptors: Coherence, Higher Education, Inferences, Prior Learning
