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Direct linkPeng Peng; Yuting Liu; Kelly Cartwright; Marc Goodrich; Natalie Koziol; Chi Ma; Caroline Whitmarsh – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2024
Purpose: The study explored the distinct contributions of domain-general, behavioral, and reading-specific executive function to reading comprehension, and whether reading fluency and vocabulary moderate or mediate the relations between executive function and reading comprehension. Method: Data were collected from 129 4th and 5th graders (35.66%,…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Reading Comprehension, Executive Function
Eunsoo Cho; Unhee Ju; Eun Ha Kim; Minhye Lee; Garam Lee; Donald L. Compton – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
Purpose: We examined the extent to which achievement goals predict reading comprehension, measured by two response formats (free recall and constructed response), and how these relations differ for students with and without reading difficulties (RD). We further explored how executive functions (working memory and semantic verbal fluency) mediate…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Goal Orientation, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Cartwright, Kelly B.; Taboada Barber, Ana; Archer, Casey J. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
Purpose: Math word problem solving, a form of reading comprehension, is complicated by mathematical lexical ambiguity (e.g., the word "difference" can mean "dissimilarity" in everyday discourse but "the answer in a subtraction problem" in math). This study examined the role of mathematical lexical ambiguity in math…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Executive Function, Word Problems (Mathematics), Problem Solving
