How Much Knowledge Is Too Little? : When a Lack of Knowledge Becomes a Barrier to Comprehension / T. O'Reilly, Z. Wang and J. Sabatini.

Have you ever found it difficult to read something due to your lack of knowledge on the topic? We investigated this phenomenon with a sample of 3,534 high school students who took a background knowledge test before working on reading comprehension tasks on the topic of ecology. Broken-line regressio...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Authors:	O'Reilly, T., Wang, Z. (Author), Sabatini, J. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2019.
Subjects:	Knowledge Level. High School Students. Reading Comprehension. Ecology. Vocabulary. Content Area Reading. Barriers.