1st Edition
Verbal Protocols of Reading The Nature of Constructively Responsive Reading
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
Researchers from a variety of disciplines have collected verbal protocols of reading as a window on conscious reading processes. Because such work has occurred in different disciplines, many who have conducted verbal protocol analyses have been unaware of the research of others. This volume brings together the existing literature from the various fields in which verbal protocols of reading have... Read more
Contents: Preface. An Introduction to Protocol Analysis of Reading. Methods Employed to Construct a Summary of Conscious Processes During Skilled Reading. What Readers Can Do When They Read: A Summary of the Results from the On-Line Self-Report Studies of Reading. Text Processing in Light of Think-Aloud Analyses of Reading: Constructively Responsive Reading. The Future of Reading Protocol Analyses: Addressing Methodological Concerns in Order to Advance Conceptual Understanding.
Biography
Michael Pressley, Peter Afflerbach
"I was impressed by the way the authors generated the description of constructively responsive reading -- that is, by adopting relevant previous studies as documents and putting them through an elaborate analysis. Such a method, with its strong validity and efficient use of evidence from multiple sources, should receive more attention among researchers....I am pleased to recommend this book to all those who are interested in the theory of reading and improvement of methods for gaining knowledge about the cognitive processes involved in reading."
—European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
