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Download full textDe Corte, E.; And Others – 1990
This study tested a model (developed by A. Lewis and R. Mayer) that simulates the comprehension processes used when solving compare problems. The basis of the "consistency hypothesis" model is that young students and even adults are more likely to make comprehension errors when the order of the terms in the relational statement of the…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Foreign Countries, Grade 3, Higher Education
Henry, G. – 1977
Some 2700 Belgian students (grades five through twelve) participated in this study of the relationships between linguistic features of passages and passage readability estimated from cloze procedures. Clozed versions of each of 60 test passages were prepared and administered to students at various grade levels. Twenty-five linguistic features of…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Difficulty (Inherent), Readability
