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Download full textThompson, David R. – 1994
Anticipating a possible future method of multimedia newspaper design and delivery, a study examined the interface among people, modality (paper, computer, multimedia), and three types of news story (news, sports, entertainment). Subjects, 55 undergraduate students enrolled in journalism classes and 20 university library employees considered as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Man Machine Systems
Durham, Gigi – 1994
This paper proposes a systematic method of measuring subjects' free recall from printed hard news stories, based on schema theories of cognition. Citing literature that demonstrates the role of text structures and text schemas in the recall of written text, the paper suggests incorporating these processes into the assessment of recall of news. In…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Media Research, News Writing
Steele, Emily; And Others – 1996
A study explored the effects of bimodal (concurrent auditory and visual stimulus modes) versus unimodal reading on 8 poor readers between the ages of 9 and 12 years. An alternating treatments design was used to compare student performance on 12 passages, 45 in each of 3 presentations modes: bimodal, visual, and auditory. Session measures included…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Low Achievement
Musthafa, Bachrudin – 1996
One way of helping learners to develop knowledge, skills, and predispositions essential for independent learning is by teaching reading in content areas to help learners acquire the necessary strategies to use reading and writing to gain new knowledge. Conent area texts pose differing demands because each body of knowledge has its own framework…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes
Andrews, Glenda; Halford, Graeme S.; Prasad, Ashika – 1998
Two experiments investigated the role of capacity in children's comprehension of relative clause sentences. Sentences varied in number of participant roles, focus (object, subject), and embeddedness (center-embedded, right-branching). Center-embeddedness and object-focus were expected to constrain individuals toward assigning more nouns to their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Memory, Primary Education, Reading Comprehension
Troyer, Sandra J. – 1992
A study determined the effect of three types of text structures (attribution, comparison, and collection) on fifth graders' reading comprehension. Subjects, 71 students from 3 classrooms in 1 public elementary school in southern California, were randomly assigned to 1 of those 3 conditions. There was no instruction given. Students read…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Gibson, Stephanie B. – 1993
The fundamental differences between traditional print and hypertext are likely to cause a shift in pedagogy. Hypertext radically alters traditional hierarchical structures both within writing systems and between author and reader. Hypertext engages users in qualitatively different activities than traditional print. Also, hypertext has been called…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Hypermedia, Nonprint Media
Melander, Bjorn – 1992
One of the analyses carried out within the University of Uppsala (Sweden) study, "LSP Texts in the 20th Century," classified the cognitive text content into five different cognitive worlds: the scientific, the practical, the object, the private, and the external. This paper investigated patterns of distribution in the texts of these…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries, Languages for Special Purposes
Troyer, Sandra J. – 1994
A study tested the effectiveness of three instructional strategies in three expository text structures on students' reading comprehension and writing performance. Subjects, 173 fourth, fifth, and sixth graders, were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: mental modeling, graphic organizer, or a control read/answer group. They received…
Descriptors: Graphic Organizers, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Reading Achievement
Clark, Henry T., III – 1989
A study examined the effect of amount of intervening text on the detection of semantic inconsistencies and use of strategic backtracking, by competent and less competent college readers. Data were elicited from 40 undergraduate students (selected on the basis of their high or low scores on a variety of instruments) enrolled in an introductory…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Coherence, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension
Johnsey, Ava L.; And Others – 1990
This study investigated the position of illustrations and how they affect the sequential organization of text. The primary purpose was to describe learners' reading sequence and preference for page designs with variations of illustration placement. The 70 subjects were undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in education courses at Memphis…
Descriptors: Desktop Publishing, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Illustrations
Ediger, Marlow – 2002
This paper discusses the difficulty students often face when many new words are simultaneously introduced in a text. It suggests teachers may address this difficulty in a number of ways, including the following: writing to a publisher to suggest improvements; providing lists of new words to students before reading selections; and focusing on…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Instruction, Reading Material Selection
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Office of Assessment and Evaluation, Salem. – 1998
This official scoring guide for writing presents details of the 6-point scoring system used in Oregon schools for the 1989-99 school year. It list attributes of students' responses to merit a score from 1 (lowest) to 6 (highest) in the areas of ideas/content, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and citing sources. (RS)
Descriptors: Citations (References), Elementary Secondary Education, Language Usage, Scoring
Wollman-Bonilla, Julie E. – 2000
Family Message Journals, in which first-graders write to their families and receive a daily written reply, involve families in children's school literacy program. This paper focuses on the written replies of four representative case-study families to their children's messages. Analysis of the instructional functions realized through text structure…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Family Involvement, Grade 1, Journal Writing
Hiebert, Elfrieda H. – 1998
A study examined the opportunities provided by several types of text for beginning readers to learn about three aspects of written English: (1) consistent, common letter-sound patterns; (2) the most frequent words; and (3) the contexts of sentences and texts. Results indicate that texts based on high-frequency words give beginning readers ample…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childrens Literature, Content Analysis, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
