Contrasting the Effects of Some Text Variables on Comprehension and Ratings of Comprehensibility. Technical Report No. 190

Contrasting the Effects of Some Text Variables on Comprehension and Ratings of Comprehensibility. Technical Report No. 190 [electronic resource] / Taffy E. Raphael and Others.

A study examined the main and interacting effects of pragmatic, structural, and word-level manipulations of text on comprehension and compared the results to the effects of these variables on judgments of text comprehensibility and interest. Subjects were 120 seventh grade students who read a number...

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Main Author: Raphael, Taffy E.
Corporate Authors: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1980.
Subjects:
Cognitive Processes.
Discourse Analysis.
Grade 7.
Junior High Schools.
Knowledge Level.
Reading Comprehension.
Reading Research.
Vocabulary.

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