The prevailing assumption by some that deep processing promotes stronger learning
outcomes while surface processing promotes weaker learning outcomes has been called …

Early in 2005, Phil Harris, Executive Director of the Association of Educational
Communications and Technology, approached Mike Spector and asked if he would like to …

A significant proportion of American high school students struggle with reading
comprehension. Theoretical models of reading comprehension might help researchers …

This study examined the influences of reading decoding skills and world knowledge on third
graders' comprehension of narrative and expository texts. Children read a narrative text and …

This study addresses the need in discourse psychology for computational techniques that
analyze text on multiple levels of cohesion and text difficulty. Discourse psychologists often …

En un reciente estudio de la OCDE, España aparecía en los últimos puestos en la
comprensión del lenguaje oral y escrito, entre otras disciplinas. Este hecho pone de …

We examined young readers' comprehension as a function of text genre (narrative, science),
text cohesion (high, low), and readers' abilities (reading decoding skills and world …

Many students from elementary school through college encounter difficulty understanding
their science textbooks, regardless of whether they have language disorders. This article …

Students with low knowledge have been shown to better understand and learn more from
more cohesive texts, whereas high-knowledge students have been shown to learn more …

Men must keep thinking; and the data assumed by psychology, just like those assumed by
physics and the other natural sciences, must some time be overhauled. The effort to …