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ERIC Number: EJ253075
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1981-Oct
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Age Differences in the Elaboration of Inferences from Text.
Wagner, Michael; Rohwer, William D. Jr.
Journal of Educational Psychology, v73 n5 p728-35 Oct 1981
The acquisition by preadolescent and late adolescent students of two kinds of information from brief texts was assessed: premise information and inference information. Age differences were obtained in inference performance. However, when the texts provided sufficient contextual support, the inference performance of preadolescents was equivalent to that of late adolescents. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Context Clues, Grade 11, Grade 5, High Schools, Intermediate Grades, Reading Comprehension
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Elaboration; Inference Comprehension