Adults with poor reading skills: How lexical knowledge interacts with scores on standardized reading comprehension tests
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Adults with poor reading skills: How lexical knowledge interacts with scores on standardized reading comprehension tests.
Millions of adults in the United States lack the necessary literacy skills for most living wage jobs. For students from adult learning classes, we used a lexical decision task to measure their knowledge of words and we used a decision-making model (Ratcliff's, 1978, diffusion model) to abstract the mechanisms underlying their performance from their RTs and accuracy. We also collected scores for...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.10.009