Cognitive Styles as Mediating Variables in Inferential Comprehension

Field Dependent/Independent Cognitive Style Research Revisited: Do Field Dependent Readers Read Differently Than Field Independent Readers?

“…Moreover, the comprehension effects were in favor of the field independent students. In a further study of fourth through sixth grade students, the same researchers (Pitts and Thompson, 1984) found that teacher-rating of field independence was the most powerful predictor of inferential comprehension abilities as compared with teacher-ratings of two other cognitive style dimensions.…”

Strategies for distributing time when studying text: An exploratory cluster‐analysis approach

“…Similarly, while the pursuit of cognitive-psychological individual differences which relate to reading has been vigorous, the models have been based almost Downloaded by [Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen] at 06:09 01 December 2014 exclusively on correlations between standardized (often nonlinguistic) trait tests and various measures of postreading recall and recognition (see Perfetti & Lesgold, 1977, for a review;Kimmel &MacGinitie, 1984, andPitts &Thompson, 1984, for recent examples). The possibility of observing commonalities in time distribution between readers and regularities in a single reader's patterns across different texts would provide a useful supplement to trait-based research.…”

Metacognitive Abilities of Above and below Average Readers: Effects of Conceptual Tempo, Passage Level, and Error Type on Error Detection

“…For example, Erickson and Otto reported a correlation of .68 between word recognition accuracy and response times for kindergarten children. On the other hand, studies by Denny (1974), Hood and Kendall (1975), Lesiak (1978), Margolis, Peterson, and Leonard (1978), and Pitts and Thompson (1984) found little or no relationship. For example, Pitts and Thompson found correlations of only .24 and .28 between a different measure of conceptual tempo and two measures of comprehension with fourth through sixth graders.…”