Discourse Comprehension and Sources of Individual Differences.

Fundamental Factors of Comprehension in Reading

A survey of the literature was made to determine the skills involved in reading comprehension that are deemed most important by authorities. Multiple-choice test items were cons...

Research in Comprehension in Reading

Comprehension and recall of sentences.

Preliminary experiments showed that 5s better recall a noun pair if they generate their own linking sentence for the pair than if they merely read an equivalent linking sentence...

A theory of reading: From eye fixations to comprehension.

This article presents a model of reading comprehension that accounts for the allocation of eye fixations of college students reading scientific passages. The model deals with pr...

Realizing That You Don't Understand: Elementary School Children's Awareness of Inconsistencies

2 factors were proposed to affect awareness of one's comprehension failure: the inferential processing requirements, and the kind of standards against which comprehension is eva...