title: Inferential Processing among Adequate and Struggling Adolescent Comprehenders and Relations to Reading Comprehension.
abstract: Separate mixed model analyses of variance (ANOVA) were conducted to examine the effect of textual distance on the accuracy and speed of text consistency judgments among adequate and struggling comprehenders across grades 6-12 (n= 1203). Multiple regressions examined whether accuracy in text consistency judgments uniquely accounted for variance in comprehension. Results suggest that there is considerable growth across the middle and high school years, particularly for adequate comprehenders in those text integration processes that maintain local coherence. Accuracy in text consistency judgments accounted for significant unique variance for passage-level, but not sentence-level comprehension, particularly for adequate comprehenders.
authors.affiliation: University of Missouri-Columbia, Department of Special Education, 311B Townsend Hall, Columbia, MO 65211.
authors.forename: Amy E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Barth
authors.affiliation: University of Texas-Austin Department of Special Education, University of Texas-Austin, 1 University Station Stop D5300, Austin, TX 78712.
authors.forename: Marcia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barnes
authors.affiliation: University of Houston, Department of Psychology, Heyne Building 128C Houston, TX 77204.
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Francis
authors.affiliation: University of Texas- Austin, The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, 1912 Speedway SZB 228, Austin, TX 78712.
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vaughn
authors.affiliation: University of Houston, Texas Learning and Computational Center Annex, Room 225, Houston, TX 77204.
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: York
keywords: adolescent students; inferences; local and global coherence; reading comprehension