Search Results - "GRAESSER, A. C"

Constructing Inferences During Narrative Text Comprehension by Graesser, Arthur C, Singer, Murray, Trabasso, Tom

“…The authors describe a constructionist theory that accounts for the knowledge-based inferences that are constructed when readers comprehend narrative text…”
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Discourse comprehension by GRAESSER, A. C, MILLIS, K. K, ZWAAN, R. A

“…The field of discourse processing has dissected many of the levels of representation that are constructed when individuals read or listen to connected…”
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AutoTutor: an intelligent tutoring system with mixed-initiative dialogue by Graesser, A.C., Chipman, P., Haynes, B.C., Olney, A.

“…AutoTutor simulates a human tutor by holding a conversation with the learner in natural language. The dialogue is augmented by an animated conversational agent…”
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Question Understanding Aid (QUAID): A Web Facility That Tests Question Comprehensibility by Graesser, Arthur C., Cai, Zhiqiang, Louwerse, Max M., Daniel, Frances

“…When respondents do not understand the meaning of a survey question, they will not supply valid and reliable answers. Survey methodologists should therefore…”
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Strategic Processing During Comprehension by Magliano, Joseph P, Trabasso, Tom, Graesser, Arthur C

“…This study addresses 3 questions: How flexible are readers when reading strategically? How is strategic processing affected by properties of the text? and Do…”
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Verification of Statements about Story Worlds that Deviate from Normal Conceptions of Time: What Is True about "Einstein's Dreams?" by Graesser, Arthur C, Kassler, Max A, Kreuz, Roger J, McLain-Allen, Bonnie

“…Two experiments involving 131 college students investigated whether readers could accurately incorporate unusual assumptions about time in the novel…”
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The process of answering direction-giving questions when someone is lost on a university campus: The role of pragmatics by Golding, Jonathan M., Graesser, Arthur C., Hauselt, Jerry

“…Two experiments investigated how college students answered direction‐giving questions when a confederate asked for directions to a destination on a university…”
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Question Asking during Tutoring by Graesser, Arthur C., Person, Natalie K.

“…Whereas it is well documented that student question asking is infrequent in classroom environments, there is little research on questioning processes during…”
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The Effect of Metaphor on Processing Style in a Persuasion Task: A Motivational Resonance Model by Ottati, Victor, Rhoads, Susan, Graesser, Arthur C

“…Previous research on metaphor and persuasion has suggested that metaphorical language elicits an assimilation effect wherein positive metaphors elicit positive…”
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Processing of new arguments at clause boundaries by HABERLANDT, K, GRAESSER, A. C

“…In a subject-paced reading-time study, we examined the processing of new arguments at clause boundaries. Word reading times increased with the cumulative…”
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Who Said What? Source Memory for Narrator and Character Agents in Literary Short Stories by Graesser, Arthur C, Bowers, Cheryl, Olde, Brent, Pomeroy, Victoria

“…One dimension of reading literacy involves the tracking of agents associated with the text. In a literary short story, there is a society of character agents…”
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Question-driven Explanatory Reasoning by GRAESSER, ARTHUR C., BAGGETT, WILLIAM, WILLIAMS, KENT

“…The primary claim in this paper is that questions are one of the fundamental cognitive components that guide human reasoning. That is, threads of coherent…”
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Anomalous Information Triggers Questions When Adults Solve Quantitative Problems and Comprehend Stories by Graesser, Arthur C, McMahen, Cathy L

“…This study tested whether anomalous information causes an increase in questions generated by college students while they solve quantitative problems (i.e.,…”
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Reading Strategies of Fast and Slow Readers by Haberlandt, Karl F, Graesser, Arthur C, Schneider, Nancy J

“…In three subject-paced experiments we evaluated reading patterns at the word, line, and sentence level for fast and slow readers. A moving-window method was…”
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AutoTutor: Incorporating back-channel feedback and other human-like conversational behaviors into an intelligent tutoring system by Rajan, Sonya, Craig, Scotty D, Gholson, Barry, Person, Natalie K, Graesser, Arthur C

“…This paper describes our recent attempts to incorporate human-like conversational behaviors into the dialog moves delivered by an animated pedagogical agent…”
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Script processing in a natural situation by NAKAMURA, G. V, GRAESSER, A. C, ZIMMERMAN, J. D, RIHA, J

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Component Processes in Text Comprehension and Some of Their Interactions by Haberlandt, Karl F, Graesser, Arthur C

“…When a text is read, an emergent meaning representation is constructed which reflects the essential ideas and the causal relations of the passage. Word,…”
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Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix by McNamara, Danielle S, Graesser, Arthur C, McCarthy, Philip M, Cai, Zhiqiang

“…Coh-Metrix is among the broadest and most sophisticated automated textual assessment tools available today. Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with…”
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Question Answering in the Context of Stories by Graesser, Arthur C, Lang, Kathy L, Roberts, Richard M

“…In this study a model of question answering (called QUEST ) is tested in the context of short stories. College students first read a story and then judged the…”
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Who knows what? Propagation of knowledge among agents in a literary storyworld by Graesser, Arthur C., Bowers, Cheryl, Olde, Brent, White, Katherine, Person, Natalie K.

“…A speech act in a story (e.g., ‘John said that Glenda is pregnant’) contains content (‘Glenda is pregnant’) that is potentially propagated among various agents…”
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