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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...