Adults with Poor Reading Skills and the Inferences They Make during Reading

Autor/inn/en	McKoon, Gail; Ratcliff, Roger
Titel	Adults with Poor Reading Skills and the Inferences They Make during Reading
Quelle	In: Scientific Studies of Reading, 21 (2017) 4, S.292-309 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1088-8438
DOI	10.1080/10888438.2017.1287188
Schlagwörter	Adults; Reading; Reading Skills; Inferences; Literacy; Reading Comprehension; Sentences; Undergraduate Students; Statistical Analysis; Reading Ability; Adult Basic Education; Adult Literacy; Accuracy; Reaction Time; Ohio (Columbus) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leseprozess; Lesen; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Inference; Inferenz; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Leseverstehen; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Statistische Analyse; Reading competence; Lesekompetenz; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult education; Erwachsenenbildung; Reaktionsvermögen
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. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01