Effect of the interaction of text structure, beackground knowledge and purpose on attention to text.

Author(s)
Birkmire, D.P.
Year
Abstract

Analysis of reading rates for all sentences showed that high content structure sentences were read at a faster rate on average than either intermediate or low content structure sentences by the group whose background knowledge was related to the text topic. Analysis of reading rates for targeted sentences showed that instructions to learn specific information resulted in depressed reading rates on average of sentences containing that information independent of the reader's background knowledge.

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B 21932 /01/
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Aberdeen Proving Ground, U.S. Army Human Engineering Laboratory, 1982, 165 p., fig., graph., tab., ref.; HEL-TM-6-82

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