A new tool for measuring and understanding individual differences in the component processes of reading comprehension

摘要: We propose a new measure of individual differences in reading comprehension ability that is theoretically motivated, easy to administer, and has high predictive power. Participants read 3-sentence paragraphs describe the relations among set real artificial terms, then they respond true-false statements assess their access integrate long-term memory knowledge with text information, make text-based inferences, recall text. The components our task predict performance on test global range specific tests, each which draws more heavily one particular component. Our better at predicting than typical working span potential for advancing researchers' understanding measurement linguistic cognitive tasks.