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Direct linkMcKoon, Gail; Ratcliff, Roger – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
Millions of U.S. adults lack the literacy skills needed for most living-wage jobs. We investigated one particular comprehension process for these adults: generating predictive inferences. If a sentence says that someone falls from a 14th-story roof, a reader should infer almost certain death. On any test of comprehension, there are two dependent…
Descriptors: Adults, Reading, Reading Skills, Inferences
