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ERIC Number: EJ384776
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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What Causes Children's Failures to Detect Inconsistencies in Text? Representation Versus Comparison Difficulties.
Vosniadou, Stella; And Others
Journal of Educational Psychology, v80 n1 p27-39 Mar 1988
Two experiments studied whether 110 first, third, and fifth graders' difficulties in detecting inconsistencies in text were related to their failure to represent inconsistent propositions in memory or failure to compare them although remembered. Shortcomings were related more to difficulties in forming mental representations than in comparing remembered information. (SLD)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Memory, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Skills, Recall (Psychology), Text Structure
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Inconsistency; Mental Representation; Text Processing (Reading)
Note: Part of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 23-27, 1984) and the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (Toronto, Canada, April 25-28, 1985).