Collaboration provides learners with opportunities to develop an understanding beyond
what they could achieve alone. To this end, learners need to build on each other's …

Prior knowledge is one of the strongest contributors to comprehension, but there is little
specificity about different aspects of prior knowledge and how they impact comprehension …

Learning from texts is an important part of STEM education, but linguistic text features can
affect comprehension and learning. We synthesized 45 experimental studies that …

В монографии представлена авторская точка зрения на роль и место понимания в
многомерном мире человека. Обсуждены методологические, теоретические и …

First published in 2007. The focus of this book is on the cognitive processes involved in
comprehension, and moreover, on techniques that help readers improve their ability to …

Computer-based assessment can provide new insights into behavioral processes of task
completion that cannot be uncovered by paper-based instruments. Time presents a major …

Failure to activate relevant, existing background knowledge may be a cause of poor reading
comprehension. This failure may cause particular problems with inferences that depend …

Current research has shown that comprehension can vary depending on text and question
types and that readers' word recognition and background knowledge may account for these …

Three experiments examined note-taking strategies and their relation to recall. In
Experiment 1, participants were instructed either to take organized lecture notes or to try and …

As readers move through a text, they engage in various types of processes that, if all goes
well, result in a mental representation that captures their interpretation of the text. With each …