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Reconstructive Recall of Linguistic Style. Technical Report No. 286.
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Brewer, William F.; Hay, Anne E. – 1983
A study investigated reconstructive recall for linguistic style. It was hypothesized that (1) features of linguistic style would be more difficult to recall than underlying content, (2) reconstructive errors would include stylistic forms recalled as standard forms when subjects lacked productive control of a particular feature of a style, and (3)…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education
Readability as an Interactive Process: An Analysis of the Syntactic and Semantic Effects on Text of Cloze Errors Associated with Variation in the Structure of Text and in Readers' Knowledge of Topic.
Black, Mary C. – 1979
A study examined whether (1) there are untested indices of difficulty that can be used to enhance the accuracy of readability formulas, (2) the same readability formula can be used to assess the readability of text for mature and immature readers and for good and poor readers, and (3) some one model of the reading process or some synthesis of…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Error Analysis (Language), Models
Do Errors on Classroom Reading Tasks Slow Growth in Reading?
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Anderson, Richard C.; And Others – Elementary School Journal, 1988
Examines evidence on error rate in classroom tasks. Claims the usual interpretation of a negative relationship between error rate (especially in oral reading errors) and reading achievement as meaning that low error rates lead to reading growth may be mistaken. Suggests oral errors cause tension, which increases attention and instigates deeper…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
The Electrophysicology of Oral Reading Errors.
Tillman, Chester E.; And Others – 1973
Researchers investigating the cerebral information processing of visual stimuli have usually followed the pattern of stimulating the subject's eyes with light and observing accompanying changes in brain wave patterns. Such visually evoked responses (VERs) have been found to discriminate bright from dull children and dyslexic from normal readers.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Language Processing
The Effect of Readability on Sight Copying in Elementary School Girls and Boys.
Polanik, Margaret – 1983
To determine how the difficulty of print materials affected elementary school students' sight copying accuracy and productivity and to explain correlate variance related to copying, 149 students in grades four, six, and eight were assigned materials to copy for three minutes. All subjects copied passages at grade level and at two grades above and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language)
Testing and Evaluation in Reading and Communication Skills: Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations Published in "Dissertation Abstracts International," July through December 1983 (Vol. 44 Nos. 1 through 6).
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effects of modality-based instruction in test taking skills upon young children's performance on standardized reading tests; (2) the effects of five…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language)