Quality of children’s knowledge representations in digital text comprehension: Evidence from pathfinder networks

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Highlights:

• Coherent situation models are crucial in digital text comprehension.

• We examined the quality of children’s structural knowledge representations.

• Children form sequential situation models across various digital text types.

• In hypertext, expert-like situation models predict reading comprehension.

• Reading hypertext may foster deeper understanding in children.

摘要

•Coherent situation models are crucial in digital text comprehension.•We examined the quality of children’s structural knowledge representations.•Children form sequential situation models across various digital text types.•In hypertext, expert-like situation models predict reading comprehension.•Reading hypertext may foster deeper understanding in children.

论文关键词:Reading comprehension,Children,Situation model,Digital text,Pathfinder approach

论文评审过程:Available online 11 February 2015.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.01.014