Adaptive Testing of Text Comprehension in Primary School. Development of a CAT-Optimized Item PoolAbstract. The present study describes the construction and calibration of a text comprehension item pool for a computer adaptive test (...
Abstract. Anaphor resolution has been found to depend on the spatial distance between the reader’s focus of attention and the location of the anaphor referent in a spatially organized situation model (spatial distance effect; Rinck & Bower, 1995; Morrow ...
The construction of predictive inferences in children and adults during the cognitive processing of audiovisual and auditory textsAbstract. The aim of the two present studies was to investigate in 192 participants aged 6, 8, 10, 13, and 22 years if they ...
Cliffhangers as a Profitable Stylistic Device in Reading Promotion? Results of a Randomized Controlled Pilot Study on the Effects of Varying Text Arrangements on Reading Enjoyment and Memory of Text Content of ...
Using Concept Maps Effectively as Structural Supports: The Role of Self-ConstructionIn this study with 46 young adults, we investigated effects of differently structured concept maps for students' comprehension of science texts and for their self-...
Assessing knowledge about reading strategiesAbstract. This paper describes the development and evaluation of an instrument assessing declarative metacognitive knowledge. In particular, this instrument deals with students’ knowledge about the utility and ...
Egocentric inference of object positions during reading and listeningAbstract. Subjects read narratives describing several objects surrounding a protagonist. In taking the protagonist's perspective, subjects constructed egocentric mental models of the ...
Forming Impressions from Person Descriptions: Effects of Text Coherence on Social Information ProcessingSummary: This paper concerns the comprehension of person descriptions. In two experiments we investigated the influence of syntactical coherence and ...
Influence of the type of visualization on the construction of mental models during picture and text comprehensionAbstract. The following article describes an integrative model of text and picture comprehension. Text and picture comprehension is ...
The Use of Presented and Learner-Generated Pictures as Aid for Comprehension in Science Text LearningBased on multimedia learning theories this paper investigated the benefits of provided pictures, based on models of self-regulated learning it also ...
Inferring time-dependent changes of entities during readingAbstract. The present paper adresses the question as to whether readers exploit temporal text information for inferring changes in properties of objects (e.g., hot chocolate becomes cold). In the ...
Abstract: In this experimental study with 62 university students, we examined to what extent the hope or hopelessness they experience during reading a text affect their comprehension as well as the magnitude and accuracy of their ...
Hypertext research results suggest that building a correct representation of the hypertext structure enables users to navigate effectively within the text. Therefore, text comprehension processes involved in hypertext reading should be investigated. In an ...
Maintaining global coherence during reading. Fisheye views as cognitive toolsAbstract. Graphic organizers, such as tree diagrams or fisheye views, are important instructional tools to improve the comprehension of traditional text or hypertext. Empirical ...
Zusammenfassung. Seit Erfindung der Schrift stellt sich die Frage, inwieweit sich das Hör- und das Leseverstehen voneinander unterscheiden. In der vorliegenden Studie wurde untersucht, ob beim Hör- und Leseverstehen unterschiedliche Lernleistungen erzielt ...
Construction of visio-spatial representations during listening and reading comprehensionAbstract. In learning environments, information can be presented as visual or auditory text. However, the question remains unanswered whether there are differences ...
Learning From Text and PicturesAbstract. Learning with text and pictures (multimedia) constitutes one of the core areas of research on learning and instruction. Against the backdrop of the multistore model of memory, cognitive theories of multimedia ...
Reading is search for meaning – and learning to read demands more than mere training of skillsAbstract. Concepts of instruction are based on quite different concepts of learning and of competing explanations of problems. This article shows that ...
Mental models of social interactions: How readers comprehend texts about cheating behaviorsAbstract. A cheating loop is a particular pattern of social exchanges in which two partners, who are bound to one another by a social contract, interact with a ...
Mental models of fictional characters' mental states and actionsAbstract. This research work addresses the issue whether mental models including the representation of the protagonist's mental state allow readers to detect inconsistencies. An experiment ...