Dr. McCarthy is thrilled to have been a part of this work led by GSU Educational Psychology PhD student, Amanda Dahl.
In this work, middle school students thought-aloud about two science texts that were relatively matched for readability. A closer look at the text features and student think-alouds suggest that researchers and educators should go beyond simple readability metrics to explore how different features of text influence processing and comprehension.
Dahl, A. C., Carlson, S. E., Renken, M., McCarthy, K. S., & Reynolds, E. (2021). Materials Matter: An Exploration of Text Complexity and Its Effects on Middle School Readers' Comprehension Processing. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_LSHSS-20-00117
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