Some components of reading comprehension don't lend themselves well to scientific study, with the result that one component--"skills and strategies"--has come to overshadow the others. The middle of a ...

This is bound to surprise some people. While conducting an analysis of the scientific comprehension of various political and religious groups, Yale professor Daniel M. Kahan discovered that ...

Just in the nick of time for the last days of summer beach reading, there were a pair of big stories about reading instruction in TIME magazine and The New Yorker last month. That’s about as ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study investigated the influence of general vocabulary knowledge, science vocabulary knowledge, and text based questioning on the science ...

Yale professor Dan Kahan made an interesting discovery while conducting some statistical comparisons of science comprehension across education, religion, and ideology. What he found might surprise you ...

During this one-hour webinar, Guided Language Acquisition experts will delve into language comprehension through a breakdown of the science of reading with an interactive demonstration. The session ...

The always fascinating Inductivist takes a look at science comprehension of Americans via the GSS. Here's his methodology: In 2006 the General Social Survey asked 437 respondents eleven basic science ...

The study collected data on the climate-change risk perceptions of a large representative sample of US adults (N=1,540). Measures were selected to permit assessment of two competing accounts of public ...