A survey of the literature was made to determine the skills involved in reading comprehension that are deemed most important by authorities. Multiple-choice test items were constructed to measure each of nine skills thus identified as basic. The inrcrcorrclarions of the ninc skill scores were factored. each skill being weighted in the initial matrix roughly in proportion to its importance in re...

The goal of reading is understanding. In order to understand print, a child must be able to decode the words on the page and to extract meaning. A large body of research focuses on how children learn to decode text and how best to foster children’s decoding skills. In contrast, we know much less about the process of reading comprehension in children. In this booklet we first consider what is re...

preciated only with the assistance of pencil and paper. On pedagogic grounds, this may be a blessing in disguise, even if it slows the reading pace. In conclusion, it should be stressed that this book is not an attempt to present an uncritical, comprehensive overview of the state of affairs in a special area of biochemistry. It is highly selective and clearly centered on the author's own contri...

COVERAGE: Lecture Notes 6 and 7; Problem Sets 3 and 4; Rowan-Robinson, Chapters 4 and 5; Weinberg, Chapters 4 and 5. One of the problems on the quiz will be taken verbatim (or at least almost verbatim) from either the homework assignments, or from the starred problems from this set of Review Problems. The starred problems are the ones that I recommend that you review most carefully: Problems 1,...

In recent development discourse, much has been debated and written about evidence-based actions, defined as: ‘the application of the best available systematically assembled evidence in setting policy and practice’. Nutrition is clearly not exempt from justifying itself, and it is important that Public Health Nutrition has addressed this in recent issues. Much of our knowledge of ‘what works’ de...

Reading comprehension is a challenging task, especially when executed across longer or across multiple evidence documents, where the answer is likely to reoccur. Existing neural architectures typically do not scale to the entire evidence, and hence, resort to selecting a single passage in the document (either via truncation or other means), and carefully searching for the answer within that pas...

This contribution comments on certain works of digital literature in order to demonstrate their use of formal and thematic literary techniques and show that ‘wreaders’ have their own creative pattern. Playing with hyperlinks involves disorganized thinking, associative laxity and conceptual, and linguistic alterations that infringe the linear construction of the literary paradigm. The mechanism ...

Purpose – This paper aims to assess the usability of electronic books (e-books) and paper books (p-books) with objective measures, including user comprehension, eye fatigue, and perception. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 56 sixth-year public school students participated in this study. This paper was conducted in the following order: pre-CFF measurement, p-/e-book reading, post-CFF mea...