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Direct linkSanchez, Christopher A.; Wiley, Jennifer; Miura, Timothy K.; Colflesh, Gregory J. H.; Ricks, Travis R.; Jensen, Melinda S.; Conway, Andrew R. A. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
The present studies directly test the usefulness of two English-language working memory capacity (WMC) assessments with two samples of students whose native language was not English. Participants completed two widely used complex span tasks, Reading Span (RSpan) and Operation Span (OSpan), in English. To determine whether the well-established…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Evaluation Methods, English (Second Language), Task Analysis
Ricks, Travis Rex; Wiley, Jennifer – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
Theories of expertise have proposed that superior cognitive performance is in part due to increases in the functional capacity of working memory during domain-related tasks. Consistent with this approach Fincher-Kiefer et al. (1988), found that domain knowledge increased scores on baseball-related reading span tasks. The present studies extended…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Short Term Memory, Cognitive Processes, Task Analysis
Thiede, Keith W.; Griffin, Thomas D.; Wiley, Jennifer; Anderson, Mary C. M. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Two studies attempt to determine the causes of poor metacomprehension accuracy and then, in turn, to identify interventions that circumvent these difficulties to support effective comprehension monitoring performance. The first study explored the cues that both at-risk and typical college readers use as a basis for their metacomprehension…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Cues, College Students, At Risk Students
Trabasso, Tom; Wiley, Jennifer – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
Past research on anaphor resolution has investigated the availability of discourse information related to characters that part and reunite. Upon reunion, distant concepts that have been associated with the characters before they separated become more accessible than they were just before the reunion. This phenomenon has been referred to as the…
Descriptors: Sentences, Causal Models, Semantics, Reader Text Relationship
Wiley, Jennifer; Goldman, Susan R.; Graesser, Arthur C.; Sanchez, Christopher A.; Ash, Ivan K.; Hemmerich, Joshua A. – American Educational Research Journal, 2009
In two experiments, undergraduates' evaluation and use of multiple Internet sources during a science inquiry task were examined. In Experiment 1, undergraduates had the task of explaining what caused the eruption of Mt. St. Helens using the results of an Internet search. Multiple regression analyses indicated that source evaluation significantly…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Reliability, Internet, Computer Uses in Education
Thiede, Keith W.; Dunlosky, John; Griffin, Thomas D.; Wiley, Jennifer – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
The typical finding from research on metacomprehension is that accuracy is quite low. However, recent studies have shown robust accuracy improvements when judgments follow certain generation tasks (summarizing or keyword listing) but only when these tasks are performed at a delay rather than immediately after reading (K. W. Thiede & M. C. M.…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Evaluative Thinking, Intervals, Evaluative Thinking
