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Direct linkJonie B. Welland; Emily L. Singell; Katherine A. Graves; Matthew K. Burns – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
Acadience Reading Diagnostic: Comprehension, Fluency, and Oral Language Assessment (CFOL) is an individually administered diagnostic assessment published by Acadience Learning for students in kindergarten through sixth grades. The measure purportedly provides diagnostic information in story coherence/text structure, listening and reading…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency
Graesser, Arthur C.; McNamara, Danielle S.; Cai, Zhiqang; Conley, Mark; Li, Haiying; Pennebaker, James – Elementary School Journal, 2014
Coh-Metrix analyzes texts on multiple measures of language and discourse that are aligned with multilevel theoretical frameworks of comprehension. Dozens of measures funnel into five major factors that systematically vary as a function of types of texts (e.g., narrative vs. informational) and grade level: narrativity, syntactic simplicity, word…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Guidelines, Syntax, Reading Comprehension
Download full textGraesser, Arthur C.; McNamara, Danielle S.; Cai, Zhiqiang; Conley, Mark; Li, Haiying; Pennebaker, James – Grantee Submission, 2014
Coh-Metrix analyzes texts on multiple measures of language and discourse that are aligned with multilevel theoretical frameworks of comprehension. Dozens of measures funnel into five major factors that systematically vary as a function of types of texts (e.g., narrative vs. informational) and grade level: narrativity, syntactic simplicity, word…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Guidelines, Syntax, Reading Comprehension
Salmani Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2010
Rhetorical structure refers to a complex network of relationships and the way the underlying ideas are organized within a text. This study was conducted to see whether explicit instruction of descriptive and causative text organization positively affected L3 reading recall. 240 Turkish students of EFL who had Persian as their second language were…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
Long, Debra L.; Wilson, Jeannette; Hurley, Ryan; Prat, Chantel S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Readers construct at least 2 interrelated mental representations when they comprehend a text: a textbase and a situation model. Two experiments were conducted with recognition memory to examine how domain knowledge and text coherence influence readers' textbase and situation-model representations. In Experiment 1, participants made remember-know…
Descriptors: Psychological Evaluation, Text Structure, Recognition (Psychology), Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedMorra de de la Pena, Ana Maria; Soler, Lidia Rosa – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2001
Investigates effectiveness of three training programs for English as a Foreign Language university students in reading and listening comprehension. Finds that: students who learned rhetorical patterns of written expository texts and text mapping strategies demonstrated better comprehension of lectures than students who performed other activities;…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Learning Strategies
