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Download full textWagner, James; Allan, Gerri – 1983
Thirty grade 4 subjects were individually tested on a digit span test of working memory capacity (Case and Kurland) and the Reading Span Test (Daneman and Carpenter). The Reading Span Test was administered using sentences at a grade 2, grade 4, and grade 6 reading level. It was predicted that, as the decoding demands of the stimulus sentences in…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Foreign Countries
