This study examined the impact of an automated reading strategy trainer called the Interactive Strategy Trainer for Active Reading and Thinking (iSTART) for improving students’ reading comprehension of a science text. iSTART is an interactive trainer that utilizes animated agents to provide reading strategy instruction. The program contains both vicarious and interactive modules that provide ad...

The goal of this experiment was to investigate readers’ ability to monitor their processing difficulty during reading and individual differences in this ability. Participants read a text one sentence at a time and made judgments of learning, judgments of sentence difficulty, or made no judgment. Participants’ metacognitive judgments were correlated with their processing difficulty only for high...

The research reported here examined the relative effectiveness of semantic mapping, as an interactive pre-reading strategy, on reading comprehension of Iranian undergraduate students (non-EFL majors). It also examined whether there was an interaction between gender and the effect of teaching semantic mapping strategy on reading comprehension. The participants in this study consisted of 120 male...

Introduction This purpose of this report is to review theoretical models of reading comprehension and to consider how key concepts relate to adults with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and the CampusReader project. Below, the overarching theoretical principles from the review are briefly summarized. 2. Interactions occur within the individual, involving both top down and bottom up reading 3....

This study explores the effect of online annotations via Interactive White Boards (IWBs) on reading comprehension of Iranian EFL learners. To this aim, 60 students from a language institute were selected as homogeneous based on their performance on Oxford Placement Test (2014).Then, they were randomly assigned to 3 experimental groups of 20, and subsequently exposed to the research treatment af...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the research on reading comprehension, including the cognitive processes employed during comprehension of text, the cognitive deficits associated with poor comprehension, and the research-based characteristics of interventions for improving reading comprehension skills. Comprehension is the essence of reading and the active process of const...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To review the need for reading assessments for patients with cancer, review existing reading assessment tools, and make a case for a new tool specific to patients with cancer. DATA SOURCES Published articles, experiences, and discussions with published authors in the field of literacy. DATA SYNTHESIS Valid and reliable tools that assess word recognition and comprehension ...