Different strategies for assessing reading comprehension in adults. From Alpha to Omega.

Sofologi, M., Efstratopoulou, M., Kamari, A., Bonti, E and Katsiana, A (2020) Different strategies for assessing reading comprehension in adults. From Alpha to Omega. European Journal of Education Studies, 7 (4). pp. 38-53. ISSN 2501-1111

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Abstract

Comprehension constitutes the main purpose of reading, one of the most important human skills. Furthermore, reading and therefore comprehension are perplexing procedures, that are built through the interaction of the cognitive functions. Comprehension occurs in a cognitive and metacognitve level. Meta-comprehension indeed, constitutes an important interpretive factor of learning, especially in the field of text comprehension. The present review study attempts to emphasizes and interpret a variety of research protocols, which have as an ultimate goal text comprehension evaluation and improvement in adult population. Implications for integrating different comprehension-monitoring experimental designs to improve text comprehension in adults are discussed.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: © 2020 The Authors. This is the final published version an article in open access journal European Journal of Education Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
Divisions: School of Social Science
Depositing User: Maria Efstratopoulou
Date Deposited: 04 May 2020 09:11
Last Modified: 08 Jan 2021 11:39
URI: https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/733

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