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50 Years of ERIC
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Sadoski, Mark; McTigue, Erin M.; Paivio, Allan – Reading Psychology, 2012
In this article we present a detailed Dual Coding Theory (DCT) model of decoding. The DCT model reinterprets and subsumes The LaBerge and Samuels (1974) model of the reading process which has served well to account for decoding behaviors and the processes that underlie them. However, the LaBerge and Samuels model has had little to say about…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Theories, Models, Comparative Analysis
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Goetz, Ernest T.; Sadoski, Mark; Stricker, Andrew G.; White, Teresa S.; Wang, Zhongmiao – Reading Psychology, 2007
The effect of word concreteness and imagery on the production of written definitions was investigated using procedures designed to produce more generalizable results than previous investigations. A random sample of words was drawn from the Paivio, Yuille, and Madigan (1968) norms, and college undergraduates were presented with a randomly selected,…
Descriptors: Investigations, Definitions, Imagery, Undergraduate Students
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Sadoski, Mark; Norton, Donna E.; Rodriguez, Maximo; Nichols, William Dee; Gerla, Jacqueline Parten – Reading Psychology, 1998
Assesses preservice and inservice reading teachers' literature knowledge and their skill in analyzing literature for middle/upper grades. Indicates that half of undergraduates knew only half of the literary terms and were unable to analyze either the story or poem adequately. Notes that graduate students fared better. Concludes teachers may have…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Intermediate Grades, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Spencer, Devi; Sadoski, Mark – Reading Psychology, 1988
Examines the effect of prereading activities on the reading comprehension of three ethnic subgroups. Finds the prereading treatment group had significantly higher literal comprehension test scores than the control group and that there was no difference among the ethnic groups who engaged in the prereading activity. (RS)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Traits, English (Second Language), Ethnic Groups