Examines the effects of prior topic knowledge and vocabulary knowledge on tenth graders' recall of different aspects of passage content in a magazine article about a baseball ceremony. Finds that domain knowledge and vocabulary have independent effects on comprehension and that these effects are on what is comprehended as well as how much is…

Examines proficient and less proficient high school comprehenders' use of strategies as they read three passages with different top-level structures: collection, causation, and comparison. Finds that both groups of readers use similar strategies. Finds that proficient comprehenders use more previous knowledge on the collection passage and more…

Examines how paraphrasing, formulating questions, comparing and contrasting, and completing matching exercises on worksheets affect recall of information. Concludes that the quality of inferences differed according to the writing task, with question writing and compare-contrast tasks generating more new information, while question writing results…