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Casteel, Mark A. – 1989
A study examined how both children and adults process inferences when reading prose. Subjects, 24 third-, fifth-, and eighth-graders, and adults, read stories where a consequence was implied, and then answered questions. The stories differed in the degree to which the inference was necessary for comprehension, and the readers engaged in either…
Descriptors: Adults, Analysis of Variance, Elementary Education, Grade 3
