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Download full textFranks, Bridget A. – 1993
A study examined how students make specific inferences from prose passages. Subjects, 44 first- and second-year college students and 40 seventh-grade students, read 3 prose passages, each containing 6 inferential questions. The premise information for each question was expressed in one of six deductive inference forms: transitive, exclusive…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Sophomores, Comparative Analysis, Deduction
