In this paper we discuss two experiments on the role that comprehension monitoring skills play in selecting the reading order of hypertextual information and comprehending this information. In the first experiment, learners who could be characterized as learners with low prior knowledge comprehended the hypertext better when they selected a coherent reading order. Further, number of links per p...

In this report, the RRSG characterizes reading comprehension in a way that the group believes will help organize research and development activities in the domain of reading comprehension. In Chapter Two, we provided a working definition for reading comprehension and outlined a framework including three core elements—reader, text, and activity—which are situated in a larger sociocultural contex...

This study investigated the effectiveness of discourse structure-based graphic organizers (GOs) on students’ reading comprehension. Seventy learners were randomly divided in two equal experimental and control groups. They took a pre-test of reading comprehension. Then the experimental group analyzed the textual structures based on the frameworks of GOs and discussed the cohesive and coherent de...

Two instructional studies directed at the comprehension-fostering and comprehension-monitoring activities of seventh grade poor comprehenders are reported. The four study activities were summarizing (self-review), questioning, clarifying, and predicting. The training method was that of reciprocal teaching, where the tutor and students took turns leading a dialogue centered on pertinent features...

Scores from high stakes tests such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) are commonly used as criteria for college admission decisions. So, it is of applied importance to identify factors that contribute to susceptibility to failure on these tests. One potential factor addressed in the current study was whether emotional cognitive load differentially impacts those with low working memory capaci...

Model-based program comprehension tools are those that use some model of a domain to assist in analysing software, and represent a large proportion of support environments for software maintainers. Such tools have widely differing characteristics that affect their suitability for software maintenance tasks. Existing evaluations of these tools take many forms, often addressing only a small part ...

Program comprehension is an important aspect of developing and maintaining software, as programmers spend most of their time comprehending source code. Thus, it is the focus of many studies and experiments to evaluate approaches and techniques that aim to improve program comprehension. As the amount of corresponding work increases, the question arises how researchers address program comprehensi...

We propose a technique that uses webmining principles on event traces for uncovering important classes in a system’s architecture. These classes can form starting points for the program comprehension process. Furthermore, we argue that these important classes can be used to define pointcuts for the introduction of aspects. Based on a medium-scale case study – Apache Ant – and detailed architect...

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...

Relational Views for Program Comprehension Tim Jones, Warwick Allison, David Carrington {tsj, warwick, davec}@cs.uq.oz.au Software Verification Research Centre Department of Computer Science The University of Queensland Queensland, Australia 4072