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Mézière, Diane C.; Yu, Lili; Reichle, Erik D.; von der Malsburg, Titus; McArthur, Genevieve – Reading Research Quarterly, 2023
This study examined the potential of eye-tracking as a tool for assessing reading comprehension. We administered three widely used reading comprehension tests with varying task demands to 79 typical adult readers while monitoring their eye movements. In the "York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension" (YARC), participants were given…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Reading Comprehension, Adults, Oral Reading
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Saint-Aubin, Jean; Klein, Raymond M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2008
When skilled readers search for a target letter while reading for comprehension, they miss the target letter more often when it is embedded in high-frequency function words than in less frequent content words. The magnitude of this "missing-letter-effect" (MLE) was investigated among 180 first- to fifth-grade students as a function of…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Form Classes (Languages), Elementary School Students, Achievement Tests