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ERIC Number: EJ404606
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Evaluation of Purposeful Reading Skills in Elementary-Age Students.
Grabe, Mark
Journal of Educational Psychology, v81 n4 p628-30 Dec 1989
Goal-related detection and processing of text were studied as functions of individual differences in reading ability for 43 fourth-grade students. The awareness that relevant information was present greatly improved the performance of more able readers; poor readers gained no advantage from a similar difference in awareness. (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods, Grade 4, Individual Differences, Reading Skills
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Text Processing (Reading)