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Age differences in calibration of comprehension
Author(s)	Jason T Olin, Elizabeth M Zelinski
Journal title	Educational Gerontology, vol 23, no 1, January-February 1997
Pages	pp 67-77
Keywords	Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Reading ; Cognitive processes ; Performance ; Comparison ; United States of America.
Annotation	Young adults have been shown to predict their reading comprehension (calibration of comprehension - CC) based on subjective assessments of both their ease in processing text and their levels of comprehension. In this article, the hypothesis is that older adults base test predictions more on the simpler task of evaluating processing ease. The authors tested whether this preference was related to older people's diminished working memory capacity. Young and older adults read texts, predicted performance, and evaluated their processing ease and comprehension level. Although both groups showed similar CC, older adults' CC was significantly related to evaluating process ease, whereas young adults' CC was related to evaluating comprehension. This difference was not associated with working memory capacity, suggesting that older adults' reliance on evaluating processing ease was not due to cognitive difficulties in judging comprehension directly.
Accession Number	CPA-971030216 A
Classmark	BB: SD6: HKM: DA: 5H: 48: 7T
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