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Casteel, Mark A.; Simpson, Greg B. – Journal of Research in Reading, 1991
Studies second, fifth, eighth grade, and college undergraduate students' changes in the ability to draw inferences. Examines the generation process of the inferences. Finds that the ability to draw inferences increases with age; backward inferences are most likely to be drawn when the text is encoded; whereas forward inferences are most likely to…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education, Grade 2
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the 11th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2014), October 25-27, 2014, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and endorsed by the Japanese Society for Information and Systems in…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Teaching Methods, Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education
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Booth, James R.; Hall, William S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1994
The importance of cognitive internal state words in skilled reading comprehension was studied with 31 5th graders, 32 7th graders, and 10th graders. Positive correlations with cognitive word knowledge were significantly higher for verbal than quantitative achievement percentiles. The order of cognitive word acquisition depends on complex factors.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Information, Cognitive Processes, College Students