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Augstein, Sheila; Thomas, Laurie – 1976
This study discusses the importance of comprehension in reading and describes a tool for measuring reading comprehension according to an individual reader's "structures of meaning." The procedure for developing a visual representation of this structure involves three distinct steps. After reading the text, student and teacher employ techniques,…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Directed Reading Activity
Download full textBean, Thomas W. – 1978
An investigation was conducted to ascertain the effects of the structured overview on both the short-term and long-term comprehension of average and below average readers. The subjects were 143 college students classified as average or below average readers and randomly assigned to either a structured overview (65) or a control group (78). Both…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Directed Reading Activity, Discourse Analysis
Thorndyke, Perry W.; Hayes-Roth, Barbara – 1979
This report documents a series of studies on how undergraduate students learn from and reason with textual information. The studies described were undertaken to produce models that could serve as the basis for designing computer systems capable of structuring and presenting text material in optimal formats. Divided into sections, the report…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Directed Reading Activity, Higher Education
Omanson, Richard C.; And Others – 1984
Directed reading activities found in commercially produced instructional materials usually contain information that is aimed at helping children understand the story as well as helping them to develop other skills. To test the effectiveness of both establishing background knowledge and directing children toward central story content, two…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Processes, Directed Reading Activity
Estes, Thomas H. – 1971
The effects of prereading techniques, specifically "advance organizers" and "structured overview" were studied by comparing retention and comprehension of reading material in high school students with and without prereading treatment. An advance organizer is a brief passage giving a general and inclusive introduction to material to be read. A…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Learning Readiness
Laurinen, Leena I. – 1988
Sentences are understood by outlining associative relations between the concepts representing the meanings of the words. When the words are received the activation spreads from their conceptual counterparts to the other concepts in memory, so that some implicit thoughts are often added to the mental representation of a sentence. As sentences are…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
