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Concept Learning in Text Comprehension
2010This paper presents a mechanism to reverse engineer a cognitive concept association graph (CAG) which is formed by a reader while reading a piece of text. During text comprehension a human reader recognizes some concepts and skips some. The recognized concepts are retained to construct the meaning of the read text while the other concepts are discarded.
Manas Hardas, Javed I. Khan
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Information Processing & Management, 1993
Abstract The importance of software documentation and the effects of poor documentation in data processing are often underrated. Little research has been published that evaluates the quality of software documentation. The evaluation of textual attributes such as comprehensibility, readability, etc., has seen more studies and relatively sound results.
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Abstract The importance of software documentation and the effects of poor documentation in data processing are often underrated. Little research has been published that evaluates the quality of software documentation. The evaluation of textual attributes such as comprehensibility, readability, etc., has seen more studies and relatively sound results.
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ASSESSING THE COMPREHENSIBILITY OF TEXT
Reading Psychology, 1983The comprehensibility of textbooks is examined in the dual perspective of literary quality and reader perceptions of text structure. Literary quality is defined in terms of unity, coherence and emphasis. Reader perceptions are defined as 1) ideas readers see in text; 2) the perceived importance of each of those ideas; 3) perceived familiarity of each ...
Thomas H. Estes, M. Elizabeth Wetmore
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Comprehensive text for raptor enthusiasts
Veterinary RecordAbstract Reviewed by Thomas Dutton , an RCVS‐recognised Specialist in avian medicine.
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Plausibility and the comprehension of text
British Journal of Psychology, 1986Implausible versions of stories were constructed by a panel of judges who filled in sentence frames from the originals from which all but the referring phrases had been deleted. In one condition each judge completed a sentence frame independently, resulting in a highly implausible story; in another condition each judge saw the two previous completed ...
Alison Black +2 more
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Psychological Reports, 1989
This is one in a series of studies concerned with the effectiveness of instructional assistance on comprehension of scrambled text. Subjects were General Psychology students at the University of Colorado. Subjects reconstructed one of two 26-sentence passages with the aid of signalling sentences which assisted in determining the original sequence ...
Philip Langer, Verne Keenan, Jan Culler
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This is one in a series of studies concerned with the effectiveness of instructional assistance on comprehension of scrambled text. Subjects were General Psychology students at the University of Colorado. Subjects reconstructed one of two 26-sentence passages with the aid of signalling sentences which assisted in determining the original sequence ...
Philip Langer, Verne Keenan, Jan Culler
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Comprehension and Discussion of Text
2014Discussion has been a staple instructional activity used in classrooms for many years. However, its form and purpose have evolved considerably over time. In its typical, or traditional form, discussion occurs as a post-reading event in which the teacher assists and assesses students’ comprehension of text (Barr & Dreeben, 1991).
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