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Derksen, Deborah Grada (2012)

Identifying characteristics of good and poor comprehenders

Master thesis | Education and Child Studies (MSc)

Readers can be poor comprehenders in the face of sufficient basic reading skills. Common perception is that poor comprehenders have difficulty constructing a coherent mental representation of the text in their memory. In current study, among good (N = 11) and poor comprehenders (N = 14), was analyzed through one-way ANOVA whether good and poor comprehenders draw different inferences and if there are relations between inference making patterns for good and poor comprehenders. The analysis showed that poor comprehenders engage significantly different online processes, and show weaker working memory abilities compared to good comprehenders. This research provides further evidence that working memory abilities influence reading comprehension.

reading comprehension

Author

Derksen, Deborah Grada

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Specialisation

Educational Studies

Supervisors

Helder, Anne

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en