Adults With Poor Reading Skills and the Inferences They Make During Reading. (4th July 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Adults With Poor Reading Skills and the Inferences They Make During Reading. (4th July 2017)
- Main Title:
- Adults With Poor Reading Skills and the Inferences They Make During Reading
- Authors:
- McKoon, Gail
Ratcliff, Roger - Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Millions of U.S. adults lack the literacy skills needed for most living-wage jobs. We investigated one particular comprehension process for these adults: generating predictive inferences. If a sentence says that someone falls from a 14th-story roof, a reader should infer almost certain death. On any test of comprehension, there are two dependent variables: the speed of the response to a test item and accuracy. To address both simultaneously, we used a decision model that separates how much information an individual understands from a text and the individual's speed/accuracy trade-off settings. We found that adult literacy students do differentiate between predictive inference sentences and control sentences, a finding that illustrates how a decision-making model combined with tests of particular comprehension processes can lead to further understanding of low-literacy adults' reading skills.
- Is Part Of:
- Scientific studies of reading. Volume 21:Number 4(2017)
- Journal:
- Scientific studies of reading
- Issue:
- Volume 21:Number 4(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 21, Issue 4 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0021-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 292
- Page End:
- 309
- Publication Date:
- 2017-07-04
- Subjects:
- Reading -- Periodicals
428.405 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t775653700~db=all ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/hssr20#.Vm6g9Wcnyig ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗
http://firstsearch.oclc.org ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/10888438.2017.1287188 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1088-8438
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- Legaldeposit
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