Speed and time, texts and sentences: Choosing the best metric for relating reading rate to comprehension

摘要: The objective of this study was to explore the relationship reading rate comprehension using different scales for rate. Although fluency research typically measures as speed (in words-per-minute) whole texts text unit interest, investigating situation models time seconds) individual sentences interest. current compared predictive powers these contrasting metrics. Time shown be superior metric when both text- and sentence-reading times were included predictors comprehension, along with an interaction between them. model accounted curvilinear nature explained almost half variance in without violating homoscedasticity assumption.