What Causes Children's Failures to Detect Inconsistencies in Text? Representation Versus Comparison Difficulties.

Vosniadou, Stella; And Others

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Publication Date: 1988

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What Causes Children's Failures to Detect Inconsistencies in Text? Representation Versus Comparison Difficulties.

Vosniadou, Stella; And Others

Journal of Educational Psychology, v80 n1 p27-39 Mar 1988

Two experiments studied whether 110 first, third, and fifth graders' difficulties in detecting inconsistencies in text were related to their failure to represent inconsistent propositions in memory or failure to compare them although remembered. Shortcomings were related more to difficulties in forming mental representations than in comparing remembered information. (SLD)

Descriptors: Content Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Memory, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Skills, Recall (Psychology), Text Structure

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