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A program for comprehension monitoring of text using HyperCard for the Macintosh

1988; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 20; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3758/bf03202704

1532-5970

Steve Nason, Karen M. Zabrucky,

Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills

We describe a program using HyperCard for the Macintosh that allows the collection of several different types of text processing data in a realistic, natural, and unobtrusive experimental setting. The program allows a sentence-by-sentence presentation of text and allows unconstrained movement forward and backward through the text. Subjects can, at any point during reading, look back at individual sentences presented previously, or review all previously presented sentences at once. All sentence readings and rereadings are timed, and the sequence of readings, rereadings, and reviews is recorded. Following passage reading, questions are asked to examine comprehension and memory of the passage. The program is well suited for the examination of comprehension evaluation and regulation in readers, as well as for the examination of other comprehension and memory processes.