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D S Mcnamara

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ID172823
NOMED S Mcnamara
PRENOMESD S
SOBRENOMEMcnamara
ASSINATURAMCNAMARA D S
AFILIAÇÕESArizona State University
ORCID0000-0001-5869-1420
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS57
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES309
TOTAL COMO AUTOR57
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1992
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H8
  • Source integration in source-based writing

    Open Access•Andrew Potter, Yu Tian et al.•ARTICLE•Assessing Writing•2026

  • Characterizing User Needs for GenAI Incorporation in Educational Games

    Open Access•Maria Goldshtein, Ishrat Ahmed et al.•ARTICLE•Education Sciences•2026

    This work explores user needs for educational games and gamification that incorporates Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). As GenAI is increasingly incorporated in educational settings, we must consider both the wide-spanning literature on gamification and games that have been shown to benefit learning, and characterize the needs and desires of relevant stakeholders in developing educational games that incorporate GenAI generally, and spe…

  • Integrating Reading, Writing, and Digital Tools in Science

    Open Access•Andrew Potter, Tracy Arner et al.•ARTICLE•Education Sciences•2025

    The purpose of this study was to engage high school science teachers as co-design partners in refining and extending instructional frameworks to support multiple-document reading and writing in science classrooms. Using a participatory mixed-methods design, the project adapted the InSPECT framework for secondary science, developed professional development (PD) materials to introduce the framework, and explored the role of generative artificial in…

  • Analyzing interaction patterns and content dynamics in an online mathematics discussion board

    Jinnie Shin, Renu Balyan et al.•ARTICLE•Interactive Learning Environments•2025

    Interactive digital platforms have transformed mathematics education by offering students novel opportunities for collaborative engagement with peers and instructors in constructing knowledge. Drawing on the premise that meaningful interpersonal interactions are pivotal to effective learning within discussion boards, this study focuses on the nature of interactions within an online mathematics discussion board. We collected a dataset encompassing…

  • Choose Your Own Adventure

    Open Access•Stephanie Day, Jin Kyoung Hwang et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Computer Assisted…•2025

  • Constructed responses as a window into strategic processing

    Katerina Christhilf, Andrew Potter et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2025•Citada por: 1•Referências: 86

  • The automated model of comprehension version 4.0 – Validation studies and integration of ChatGPT

    Open Access•Dragos-Georgian Corlatescu, Micah Watanabe et al.•ARTICLE•Computers in Human Behavior•2024

  • Introduction

    D S Mcnamara, Evelyn C Ferstl et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2024•Citada por: 1•Referências: 4

    This special issue in Discourse Processes is in honor of the late Walter Kintsch. The interdisciplinary scope of his research had a tremendous impact across multiple fields, including discourse processes, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, and education, being cited tens of thousands of times. To honor his influence on the field and the numerous scientists who had been guided by his mentorship, this special issue includes 18 commentaries from …

  • Automated strategy feedback can improve the readability of physicians’ electronic communications to simulated patients

    Open Access•Rod D Roscoe, Renu Balyan et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2023

  • Pedagogical discourse markers in online algebra learning

    Open Access•Jinnie Shin, Renu Balyan et al.•ARTICLE•Computers & Education•2023

  • Anchoring your bridge

    D S Mcnamara, Natalie Newton et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2023•Citada por: 4•Referências: 66

    Analyzing constructed responses, such as think-alouds or self-explanations, can reveal\nvaluable information about readers’ comprehension strategies. The current study\nexpands upon the extant work by (1) investigating combinations and patterns of\ncomprehension strategies that readers use and (2) examining the extent to which\nthese patterns relate to individual differences and comprehension outcomes. We\nleveraged archival data from three datas…

  • Natural language processing and discourse complexity studies

    Open Access•Marina I Solnyshkina, D S Mcnamara et al.•ARTICLE•Russian Journal of Linguistics•2022

    The study presents an overview of discursive complexology, an integral paradigm of linguistics, cognitive studies and computer linguistics aimed at defining discourse complexity. The article comprises three main parts, which successively outline views on the category of linguistic complexity, history of discursive complexology and modern methods of text complexity assessment. Distinguishing the concepts of linguistic complexity, text and discours…

  • Computational linguistics and discourse complexology

    Open Access•Valery D Solovyev, Marina I Solnyshkina et al.•ARTICLE•Russian Journal of Linguistics•2022

    The dramatic expansion of modern linguistic research and enhanced accuracy of linguistic analysis have become a reality due to the ability of artificial neural networks not only to learn and adapt, but also carry out automate linguistic analysis, select, modify and compare texts of various types and genres. The purpose of this article and the journal issue as a whole is to present modern areas of research in computational linguistics and linguist…

  • Integration in Multiple-Document Comprehension

    Allison N Sonia, Joseph P Magliano et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2022•Citada por: 4•Referências: 52

    The constructed responses individuals generate while reading can provide insights into their coherence-building processes. The current study examined how the cohesion of constructed responses relates to performance on an integrated writing task. Participants (N = 95) completed a multiple document reading task wherein they were prompted to think aloud, self-explain, or evaluate the sources while reading and then write an integrated essay based on …

  • The Multidimensional Knowledge in Text Comprehension framework

    Kathryn S McCarthy, D S Mcnamara•ARTICLE•Educational Psychologist•2021

    Prior knowledge is one of the strongest contributors to comprehension, but there is little specificity about different aspects of prior knowledge and how they impact comprehension. This article introduces the Multidimensional Knowledge in Text Comprehension framework, which conceptualizes prior knowledge along four intersecting dimensions: amount, accuracy, specificity, and coherence. Amount refers to how many relevant concepts the reader knows. …

  • Developing and Testing Automatic Models of Patient Communicative Health Literacy Using Linguistic Features

    Scott A Crossley, Renu Balyan et al.•ARTICLE•Health Communication•2021

    Patients with diabetes and limited health literacy (HL) may have suboptimal communication exchange with their health care providers and be at elevated risk of adverse health outcomes. These difficulties are generally attributed to patients' reduced ability to both communicate and understand health-related ideas as well as physicians' lack of skill in identifying those with limited HL. Understanding and identifying patients with barriers posed by …

  • Before and during Covid-19

    Open Access•Maria-Dorinela Dascalu, Stefan Ruseti et al.•ARTICLE•Computers in Human Behavior•2021

  • Chasing Theory with Technology

    D S Mcnamara•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2021•Referências: 80

    An overarching motivation driving my research has been to further our theoretical understanding of how readers successfully comprehend challenging text. This article describes the theoretical origins of this research program and my quest to understand comprehension processes through the use of technology. Coh-Metrix was developed to measure, and in turn facilitate, manipulations of text cohesion and text ease. iSTART was developed to provide stud…

  • If Integration Is the Keystone of Comprehension

    D S Mcnamara•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2021•Citada por: 4•Referências: 6

    This article provides a commentary within the special issue, Integration: The Keystone of Comprehension. According to most contemporary frameworks, a driving force in comprehension is the reader’s ability to generate the links among the words and sentences (ideas) in the texts and between the ideas in the text and what the readers already know. As such, the key to successful comprehension is generating inferences: inferences about what a word mea…

  • Personalized learning in iSTART

    Kathryn S McCarthy, Micah Watanabe et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research on Technology…•2020

    Computer-based learning environments (CBLEs) provide unprecedented opportunities for personalized learning at scale. One such system, iSTART (Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking) is an adaptive, game-based tutoring system for reading comprehension. This paper describes how efforts to increase personalized learning have improved the system. It also provides results of a recent implementation of an adaptive logic that incr…

  • The Russian Language Test

    Open Access•Kathryn S McCarthy, D S Mcnamara et al.•ARTICLE•Vestnik Volgogradskogo…•2019

    Reading comprehension relies on a variety of complex skills that are not effectively assessed by existing Russian language tests. At the same time, Russian textbooks are criticized both for their low text quality and high text complexity. This study addresses issues of Russian language proficiency and comprehension assessment with the development of the Russian Language Test (RLT). The RLT was constructed to measure proficiency relevant to textbo…

  • Comprehension in a Scenario-Based Assessment

    Kathryn S McCarthy, Tricia A Guerrero et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2018•Citada por: 5•Referências: 49

    Background knowledge is a strong predictor of reading comprehension, yet little is known about how different types of background knowledge affect comprehension. The study investigated the impacts of both domain and topic-specific background knowledge on students’ ability to comprehend and learn from science texts. High school students (n = 3,650) completed two background knowledge assessments, a pretest, comprehension tasks, and a posttest, in th…

  • Predicting Text Comprehension, Processing, and Familiarity in Adult Readers

    Scott A Crossley, Stephen Skalicky et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2017•Citada por: 4•Referências: 54

    Research has identified a number of linguistic features that influence the reading comprehension of young readers; yet, less is known about whether and how these findings extend to adult readers. This study examines text comprehension, processing, and familiarity judgment provided by adult readers using a number of different approaches (i.e., natural language processing, crowd-sourced ratings, and machine learning). The primary focus is on the id…

  • Self-Explanation and Reading Strategy Training (Sert) Improves Low-Knowledge Students’ Science Course Performance

    D S Mcnamara•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2017•Citada por: 8•Referências: 30

    This study demonstrates the generalization of previous laboratory results showing the benefits of Self-Explanation Reading Training (SERT) to college students’ course exam performance. The participants were 265 students enrolled in an Introductory Biology course, 59 of whom were provided with SERT. The results showed that SERT benefited students who began the course with less knowledge about science but did not benefit students with greater prior…

  • Bridging Skill and Task-Oriented Reading

    Karyn Higgs, Joseph P Magliano et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2017•Citada por: 4•Referências: 51

    Some individual difference factors are more strongly correlated with performance on postreading questions when the text is not available than when it is. The present study explores if similar interactions occur with bridging skill, which refers to a reader's propensity to establish connections between explicit text during reading. Undergraduates read science texts using two research tools. The Reading Strategy-Assessment Tool provided a measure o…

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  • Learning from texts

    D S Mcnamara, Walter Kintsch•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•1996•Citada por: 63•Referências: 32

    Two experiments, theoretically motivated by the construction‐integration model of comprehension (W. Kintsch, 1988), investigated effects of prior knowledge on learning from high‐ and low‐coherence history texts. In Experiment 1, participants’ comprehension was examined through free recall, multiple‐choice questions, and a keyword sorting task. An advantage was found for the high‐coherence text on recall and multiple‐choice questions. However, hig…

  • Coh-Metrix

    Open Access•Arthur C Graesser, D S Mcnamara et al.•ARTICLE•Educational Researcher•2011•Citada por: 56•Referências: 38

    Computer analyses of text characteristics are often used by reading teachers, researchers, and policy makers when selecting texts for students. The authors of this article identify components of language, discourse, and cognition that underlie traditional automated metrics of text difficulty and their new Coh-Metrix system. Coh-Metrix analyzes texts on multiple measures of language and discourse that are aligned with multilevel theoretical framew…

  • Sert

    D S Mcnamara•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2004•Citada por: 30•Referências: 34

    This study examined the effects of providing reading strategy instruction to improve the effectiveness of self-explanation (i.e., explaining the meaning of information to oneself while reading). The effects of the reading strategy instruction, called Self-Explanation Reading Training (SERT), were examined both in terms of comprehension scores and self-explanation quality. Half of the participants (n = 42) received SERT, which included reading str…

  • The Impact of Science Knowledge, Reading Skill, and Reading Strategy Knowledge on More Traditional "High-Stakes" Measures of High School Students' Science Achievement

    Open Access•Tenaha O’reilly, D S Mcnamara•ARTICLE•American Educational Research…•2007•Citada por: 27•Referências: 1

    This study examined how well cognitive abilities predict high school students' science achievement as measured by traditional content-based tests. Students (n = 1,651) from four high schools in three states were assessed on their science knowledge, reading skill, and reading strategy knowledge. The dependent variable, content-based science achievement, was measured in terms of students' comprehension of a science passage, science course grade, an…

  • Reversing the Reverse Cohesion Effect

    Tenaha O’reilly, Tenaha O'Reilly et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2007•Citada por: 21•Referências: 44

    Students with low knowledge have been shown to better understand and learn more from more cohesive texts, whereas high-knowledge students have been shown to learn more from lower cohesion texts; this has been called the reverse cohesion effect. This study examines whether students' comprehension skill affects the interaction between text cohesion and their domain knowledge. College students (n= 143) read either a high- or a low-cohesion text and …

  • Psycholinguistic word information in second language oral discourse

    Open Access•Tom Salsbury, Scott A Crossley et al.•ARTICLE•Second language Research•2011•Citada por: 13•Referências: 4

    This study uses word information scores from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Psycholinguistic Database to analyse word development in the spontaneous speech data of six adult learners of English as a second language (L2) in a one-year longitudinal study. In contrast to broad measures of lexical development, such as word frequency and lexical diversity, this study analyses L2 learners’ depth of word knowledge as measured by psycholinguistic val…

  • Coh-Metrix

    D S Mcnamara, Max M Louwerse et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2010•Citada por: 12•Referências: 56

    This study addresses the need in discourse psychology for computational techniques that analyze text on multiple levels of cohesion and text difficulty. Discourse psychologists often investigate phenomena related to discourse processing using lengthy texts containing multiple paragraphs, as opposed to single word and sentence stimuli. Characterizing such texts in terms of cohesion and coherence is challenging. Some computational tools are availab…

  • Measuring L2 Lexical Growth Using Hypernymic Relationships

    Open Access•Scott A Crossley, Scott Crossley et al.•ARTICLE•Language Learning•2009•Citada por: 9•Referências: 51

    This study investigated second language (L2) lexical development in the spontaneous speech of six adult, L2 English learners in a 1-year longitudinal study. One important aspect of lexical development is lexical organization and depth of knowledge. Hypernymic relations, the hierarchical relationships among related words that vary in relation to their semantic specificity (e.g., Golden Retriever vs. dog vs. animal), are an important indicator of b…

  • Self-Explanation and Reading Strategy Training (Sert) Improves Low-Knowledge Students’ Science Course Performance

    D S Mcnamara•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2017•Citada por: 8•Referências: 30

    This study demonstrates the generalization of previous laboratory results showing the benefits of Self-Explanation Reading Training (SERT) to college students’ course exam performance. The participants were 265 students enrolled in an Introductory Biology course, 59 of whom were provided with SERT. The results showed that SERT benefited students who began the course with less knowledge about science but did not benefit students with greater prior…

  • Comparing count-based and band-based indices of word frequency

    Scott A Crossley, Tia Cobb et al.•ARTICLE•System•2013•Citada por: 8•Referências: 4

  • Assessing Text Readability Using Cognitively Based Indices

    Open Access•Scott A Crossley, J C Greenfield et al.•ARTICLE•TESOL Quarterly•2008•Citada por: 8•Referências: 16

    Many programs designed to compute the readability of texts are narrowly based on surface‐level linguistic features and take too little account of the processes which a reader brings to the text. This study is an exploratory examination of the use of Coh‐Metrix, a computational tool that measures cohesion and text difficulty at various levels of language, discourse, and conceptual analysis. It is suggested that Coh‐Metrix provides an improved mean…

  • What Is Lexical Proficiency? Some Answers From Computational Models of Speech Data

    Open Access•Scott A Crossley, Tom Salsbury et al.•ARTICLE•TESOL Quarterly•2011•Citada por: 7•Referências: 8

    Lexical proficiency, as a cognitive construct, is poorly understood. However, lexical proficiency is an important element of language proficiency and fluency, especially for second language (L2) learners. For example, lexical errors are a common cause of L2 miscommunication (Ellis, 1995). Lexical proficiency is also an important attribute of L2 academic achievement (Daller, van Hout, & Treffers-Daller, 2003). Generally speaking, lexical proficien…

  • Comprehension in a Scenario-Based Assessment

    Kathryn S McCarthy, Tricia A Guerrero et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2018•Citada por: 5•Referências: 49

    Background knowledge is a strong predictor of reading comprehension, yet little is known about how different types of background knowledge affect comprehension. The study investigated the impacts of both domain and topic-specific background knowledge on students’ ability to comprehend and learn from science texts. High school students (n = 3,650) completed two background knowledge assessments, a pretest, comprehension tasks, and a posttest, in th…

  • Frequency effects and second language lexical acquisition

    Scott A Crossley, Scott Crossley et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Corpus…•2014•Citada por: 5•Referências: 8

    Frequency effects in an L1 and L2 longitudinal corpus were investigated using Zipfian distribution analyses and linear curve estimations. The results demonstrated that the NS lexical input exhibited Zipfian distributions, but that the L2 lexical output did not match the NS Zipfian patterns. Word frequency analyses indicated that NS interlocutors modify their lexicon such that frequency scores decrease as a function of time that L2 learners have s…

  • Contributions of Self-Explanation to Comprehension of High- and Low-Cohesion Texts

    Yasuhiro Ozuru, Stephen Briner et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2010•Citada por: 5•Referências: 28

    This study examined how the contribution of self-explanation to science text comprehension is affected by the cohesion of a text at a local level. Psychology undergraduates read and self-explained a science text with either low or high local cohesion. Local cohesion was manipulated by the presence or absence of connectives and referential words or phrases that explicitly link successive sentences. After the self-explanation activity, participants…

  • Anchoring your bridge

    D S Mcnamara, Natalie Newton et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2023•Citada por: 4•Referências: 66

    Analyzing constructed responses, such as think-alouds or self-explanations, can reveal\nvaluable information about readers’ comprehension strategies. The current study\nexpands upon the extant work by (1) investigating combinations and patterns of\ncomprehension strategies that readers use and (2) examining the extent to which\nthese patterns relate to individual differences and comprehension outcomes. We\nleveraged archival data from three datas…

  • Integration in Multiple-Document Comprehension

    Allison N Sonia, Joseph P Magliano et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2022•Citada por: 4•Referências: 52

    The constructed responses individuals generate while reading can provide insights into their coherence-building processes. The current study examined how the cohesion of constructed responses relates to performance on an integrated writing task. Participants (N = 95) completed a multiple document reading task wherein they were prompted to think aloud, self-explain, or evaluate the sources while reading and then write an integrated essay based on …

  • If Integration Is the Keystone of Comprehension

    D S Mcnamara•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2021•Citada por: 4•Referências: 6

    This article provides a commentary within the special issue, Integration: The Keystone of Comprehension. According to most contemporary frameworks, a driving force in comprehension is the reader’s ability to generate the links among the words and sentences (ideas) in the texts and between the ideas in the text and what the readers already know. As such, the key to successful comprehension is generating inferences: inferences about what a word mea…

  • Predicting Text Comprehension, Processing, and Familiarity in Adult Readers

    Scott A Crossley, Stephen Skalicky et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2017•Citada por: 4•Referências: 54

    Research has identified a number of linguistic features that influence the reading comprehension of young readers; yet, less is known about whether and how these findings extend to adult readers. This study examines text comprehension, processing, and familiarity judgment provided by adult readers using a number of different approaches (i.e., natural language processing, crowd-sourced ratings, and machine learning). The primary focus is on the id…

  • Bridging Skill and Task-Oriented Reading

    Karyn Higgs, Joseph P Magliano et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2017•Citada por: 4•Referências: 51

    Some individual difference factors are more strongly correlated with performance on postreading questions when the text is not available than when it is. The present study explores if similar interactions occur with bridging skill, which refers to a reader's propensity to establish connections between explicit text during reading. Undergraduates read science texts using two research tools. The Reading Strategy-Assessment Tool provided a measure o…

  • Analyzing Discourse Processing Using a Simple Natural Language Processing Tool

    Scott A Crossley, Laura K Allen et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2014•Citada por: 4•Referências: 48

    Natural language processing (NLP) provides a powerful approach for discourse processing researchers. However, there remains a notable degree of hesitation by some researchers to consider using NLP, at least on their own. The purpose of this article is to introduce and make available a simple NLP (SiNLP) tool. The overarching goal of the article is to proliferate the use of NLP in discourse processing research. The article also provides an instant…

  • Assessing L2 reading texts at the intermediate level

    Open Access•Scott A Crossley, D S Mcnamara•ARTICLE•Language Teaching•2008•Citada por: 3•Referências: 27

    This paper follows up on the work of Crossley, Louwerse, McCarthy & McNamara (2007), who conducted an exploratory study of the linguistic differences of simplified and authentic texts found in beginner level English as a Second Language (ESL) textbooks using the computational tool Coh-Metrix. The purpose of this study is to provide a more comprehensive study of second language (L2) reading texts than that provided by Crossley et al. (2007) by inv…

  • The epistemic stance between the author and reader

    Open Access•D S Mcnamara•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies•2013•Citada por: 2

    This article explores the role of text cohesion in the comprehension and production of text. While most discourse models have considered the roles of the text features and the reader, the crucial role of writers’ epistemic stance has not been widely considered. The thesis explored here is that levels of cohesion emerge in text based on the epistemic stance of the author relative to the reader. Evidence is provided indicating that text genres (i.e…

  • Constructed responses as a window into strategic processing

    Katerina Christhilf, Andrew Potter et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2025•Citada por: 1•Referências: 86

  • Introduction

    D S Mcnamara, Evelyn C Ferstl et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2024•Citada por: 1•Referências: 4

    This special issue in Discourse Processes is in honor of the late Walter Kintsch. The interdisciplinary scope of his research had a tremendous impact across multiple fields, including discourse processes, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, and education, being cited tens of thousands of times. To honor his influence on the field and the numerous scientists who had been guided by his mentorship, this special issue includes 18 commentaries from …

  • Effects of Same-Modality Interference on Immediate Serial Recall of Auditory and Visual Information

    Marilyn L Turner, Stephen K Johnson et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of General Psychology•1992•Citada por: 1

    Two studies investigated the effects of same-modality interference on the immediate serial recall of auditorily and visually presented stimuli. Typically, research in which this task is used has been conducted in quiet rooms, excluding auditory information that is extraneous to the auditorily presented stimuli. However, visual information such as background items clearly within the subject's view have not been excluded during visual presentation.…

  • Are Good Texts Always Better? Interactions of Text Coherence, Background Knowledge, and Levels of Understanding in Learning From Text

    D S Mcnamara, Eileen Kintsch et al.•ARTICLE•Cognition and Instruction•1996

    Two experiments, theoretically motivated by the construction-integration model of text comprehension (W. Kintsch, 1988), investigated the role of text coherence in the comprehension of science texts. In Experiment 1, junior high school students' comprehension of one of three versions of a biology text was examined via free recall, written questions, and a key-word sorting task. This study demonstrates advantages for globally coherent text and for…

  • Learning from texts

    D S Mcnamara, Walter Kintsch•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•1996•Citada por: 63•Referências: 32

    Two experiments, theoretically motivated by the construction‐integration model of comprehension (W. Kintsch, 1988), investigated effects of prior knowledge on learning from high‐ and low‐coherence history texts. In Experiment 1, participants’ comprehension was examined through free recall, multiple‐choice questions, and a keyword sorting task. An advantage was found for the high‐coherence text on recall and multiple‐choice questions. However, hig…

  • Coh-Metrix

    Open Access•Arthur C Graesser, D S Mcnamara et al.•ARTICLE•Behavior Research Methods,…•2004

  • Sert

    D S Mcnamara•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2004•Citada por: 30•Referências: 34

    This study examined the effects of providing reading strategy instruction to improve the effectiveness of self-explanation (i.e., explaining the meaning of information to oneself while reading). The effects of the reading strategy instruction, called Self-Explanation Reading Training (SERT), were examined both in terms of comprehension scores and self-explanation quality. Half of the participants (n = 42) received SERT, which included reading str…

  • Reversing the Reverse Cohesion Effect

    Tenaha O’reilly, Tenaha O'Reilly et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2007•Citada por: 21•Referências: 44

    Students with low knowledge have been shown to better understand and learn more from more cohesive texts, whereas high-knowledge students have been shown to learn more from lower cohesion texts; this has been called the reverse cohesion effect. This study examines whether students' comprehension skill affects the interaction between text cohesion and their domain knowledge. College students (n= 143) read either a high- or a low-cohesion text and …

  • The Impact of Science Knowledge, Reading Skill, and Reading Strategy Knowledge on More Traditional "High-Stakes" Measures of High School Students' Science Achievement

    Open Access•Tenaha O’reilly, D S Mcnamara•ARTICLE•American Educational Research…•2007•Citada por: 27•Referências: 1

    This study examined how well cognitive abilities predict high school students' science achievement as measured by traditional content-based tests. Students (n = 1,651) from four high schools in three states were assessed on their science knowledge, reading skill, and reading strategy knowledge. The dependent variable, content-based science achievement, was measured in terms of students' comprehension of a science passage, science course grade, an…

  • Differential Competencies Contributing to Children's Comprehension of Narrative and Expository Texts

    Rachel Best, Rachel M Best et al.•ARTICLE•Reading Psychology•2008

    This study examined the influences of reading decoding skills and world knowledge on third graders' comprehension of narrative and expository texts. Children read a narrative text and an expository text. Comprehension of each text was assessed with a free recall prompt, three cued recall prompts, and 12 multiple-choice questions. Tests from the Woodcock–Johnson III Tests of Achievement (Woodcock, McGrew, & Mather, 2001 Woodcock, R. W., McGrew, K.…

  • Assessing L2 reading texts at the intermediate level

    Open Access•Scott A Crossley, D S Mcnamara•ARTICLE•Language Teaching•2008•Citada por: 3•Referências: 27

    This paper follows up on the work of Crossley, Louwerse, McCarthy & McNamara (2007), who conducted an exploratory study of the linguistic differences of simplified and authentic texts found in beginner level English as a Second Language (ESL) textbooks using the computational tool Coh-Metrix. The purpose of this study is to provide a more comprehensive study of second language (L2) reading texts than that provided by Crossley et al. (2007) by inv…

  • Assessing Text Readability Using Cognitively Based Indices

    Open Access•Scott A Crossley, J C Greenfield et al.•ARTICLE•TESOL Quarterly•2008•Citada por: 8•Referências: 16

    Many programs designed to compute the readability of texts are narrowly based on surface‐level linguistic features and take too little account of the processes which a reader brings to the text. This study is an exploratory examination of the use of Coh‐Metrix, a computational tool that measures cohesion and text difficulty at various levels of language, discourse, and conceptual analysis. It is suggested that Coh‐Metrix provides an improved mean…

  • Prior knowledge, reading skill, and text cohesion in the comprehension of science texts

    Open Access•Yasuhiro Ozuru, Kyle B Dempsey et al.•ARTICLE•Learning and Instruction•2009

  • Chapter 9 Toward a Comprehensive Model of Comprehension

    D S Mcnamara, Joe Magliano•CHAPTER•The Psychology of Learning and…•2009

  • Measuring L2 Lexical Growth Using Hypernymic Relationships

    Open Access•Scott A Crossley, Scott Crossley et al.•ARTICLE•Language Learning•2009•Citada por: 9•Referências: 51

    This study investigated second language (L2) lexical development in the spontaneous speech of six adult, L2 English learners in a 1-year longitudinal study. One important aspect of lexical development is lexical organization and depth of knowledge. Hypernymic relations, the hierarchical relationships among related words that vary in relation to their semantic specificity (e.g., Golden Retriever vs. dog vs. animal), are an important indicator of b…

  • Linguistic Features of Writing Quality

    Open Access•D S Mcnamara, Scott A Crossley et al.•ARTICLE•Written Communication•2010

    In this study, a corpus of expert-graded essays, based on a standardized scoring rubric, is computationally evaluated so as to distinguish the differences between those essays that were rated as high and those rated as low. The automated tool, Coh-Metrix, is used to examine the degree to which high- and low-proficiency essays can be predicted by linguistic indices of cohesion (i.e., coreference and connectives), syntactic complexity (e.g., number…

  • Coh-Metrix

    D S Mcnamara, Max M Louwerse et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2010•Citada por: 12•Referências: 56

    This study addresses the need in discourse psychology for computational techniques that analyze text on multiple levels of cohesion and text difficulty. Discourse psychologists often investigate phenomena related to discourse processing using lengthy texts containing multiple paragraphs, as opposed to single word and sentence stimuli. Characterizing such texts in terms of cohesion and coherence is challenging. Some computational tools are availab…

  • Contributions of Self-Explanation to Comprehension of High- and Low-Cohesion Texts

    Yasuhiro Ozuru, Stephen Briner et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Processes•2010•Citada por: 5•Referências: 28

    This study examined how the contribution of self-explanation to science text comprehension is affected by the cohesion of a text at a local level. Psychology undergraduates read and self-explained a science text with either low or high local cohesion. Local cohesion was manipulated by the presence or absence of connectives and referential words or phrases that explicitly link successive sentences. After the self-explanation activity, participants…

  • Predicting lexical proficiency in language learner texts using computational indices

    Open Access•Scott A Crossley, Tom Salsbury et al.•ARTICLE•Language Testing•2011

    The authors present a model of lexical proficiency based on lexical indices related to vocabulary size, depth of lexical knowledge, and accessibility to core lexical items. The lexical indices used in this study come from the computational tool Coh-Metrix and include word length scores, lexical diversity values, word frequency counts, hypernymy values, polysemy values, semantic co-referentiality, word meaningfulness, word concreteness, word imaga…

  • Psycholinguistic word information in second language oral discourse

    Open Access•Tom Salsbury, Scott A Crossley et al.•ARTICLE•Second language Research•2011•Citada por: 13•Referências: 4

    This study uses word information scores from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Psycholinguistic Database to analyse word development in the spontaneous speech data of six adult learners of English as a second language (L2) in a one-year longitudinal study. In contrast to broad measures of lexical development, such as word frequency and lexical diversity, this study analyses L2 learners’ depth of word knowledge as measured by psycholinguistic val…

  • What Is Lexical Proficiency? Some Answers From Computational Models of Speech Data

    Open Access•Scott A Crossley, Tom Salsbury et al.•ARTICLE•TESOL Quarterly•2011•Citada por: 7•Referências: 8

    Lexical proficiency, as a cognitive construct, is poorly understood. However, lexical proficiency is an important element of language proficiency and fluency, especially for second language (L2) learners. For example, lexical errors are a common cause of L2 miscommunication (Ellis, 1995). Lexical proficiency is also an important attribute of L2 academic achievement (Daller, van Hout, & Treffers-Daller, 2003). Generally speaking, lexical proficien…

  • Coh-Metrix

    Open Access•Arthur C Graesser, D S Mcnamara et al.•ARTICLE•Educational Researcher•2011•Citada por: 56•Referências: 38

    Computer analyses of text characteristics are often used by reading teachers, researchers, and policy makers when selecting texts for students. The authors of this article identify components of language, discourse, and cognition that underlie traditional automated metrics of text difficulty and their new Coh-Metrix system. Coh-Metrix analyzes texts on multiple measures of language and discourse that are aligned with multilevel theoretical framew…

  • Predicting second language writing proficiency

    Open Access•Scott A Crossley, D S Mcnamara•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Reading•2012

    This study addresses research gaps in predicting second language (L2) writing proficiency using linguistic features. Key to this analysis is the inclusion of linguistic measures at the surface, textbase and situation model level that assess text cohesion and linguistic sophistication. The results of this study demonstrate that five variables (lexical diversity, word frequency, word meaningfulness, aspect repetition and word familiarity) can be us…

  • Predicting the proficiency level of language learners using lexical indices

    Open Access•Scott A Crossley, Tom Salsbury et al.•ARTICLE•Language Testing•2012

    This study explores how second language (L2) texts written by learners at various proficiency levels can be classified using computational indices that characterize lexical competence. For this study, 100 writing samples taken from 100 L2 learners were analyzed using lexical indices reported by the computational tool Coh-Metrix. The L2 writing samples were categorized into beginning, intermediate, and advanced groupings based on the TOEFL and ACT…

  • Predicting human judgments of essay quality in both integrated and independent second language writing samples

    Liang Guo, Scott A Crossley et al.•ARTICLE•Assessing Writing•2013

  • Comparing count-based and band-based indices of word frequency

    Scott A Crossley, Tia Cobb et al.•ARTICLE•System•2013•Citada por: 8•Referências: 4

  • The epistemic stance between the author and reader

    Open Access•D S Mcnamara•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies•2013•Citada por: 2

    This article explores the role of text cohesion in the comprehension and production of text. While most discourse models have considered the roles of the text features and the reader, the crucial role of writers’ epistemic stance has not been widely considered. The thesis explored here is that levels of cohesion emerge in text based on the epistemic stance of the author relative to the reader. Evidence is provided indicating that text genres (i.e…

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