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Klare, George R. – 1981
Two studies investigated the relationships between readability, prior knowledge, and interest in the material being read. In the first study, 169 college freshmen read cloze passages of materials from the Nelson-Denny Reading Tests, then one week later read the whole passages and completed the related multiple choice questions. A control group…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Difficulty Level, High School Seniors, Prior Learning
Valentino, Beth Anne M. – 1978
A study was undertaken (1) to determine if a relationship existed between preadolescents' levels of reading comprehension as defined by T. C. Barrett's Taxonomy of Reading Comprehension and their levels of moral development according to Lawrence Kohlberg's stage sequence and (2) to discover if females demonstrated higher levels of reading…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Moral Development
