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Constructing inferences during narrative text comprehension.

A. Graesser, M. Singer, T. Trabasso
Psychology
Psychological review
1 July 1994

Empirical evidence is reviewed that addresses the constructionist theory that accounts for the knowledge-based inferences that are constructed when readers comprehend narrative text and contrasts it with alternative theoretical frameworks.

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Is it an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents

S. Franklin, A. Graesser
Economics
ATAL
12 August 1996

This work proposes a formal definition of an autonomous agent which clearly distinguishes a software agent from just any program, and offers the beginnings of a natural kinds taxonomy of autonomous agents.

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Coh-Metrix: Analysis of text on cohesion and language

A. Graesser, D. McNamara, M. Louwerse, Zhiqiang Cai
Computer Science, Linguistics
Behavior research methods, instruments…
1 May 2004

Standard text readability formulas scale texts on difficulty by relying on word length and sentence length, whereas Coh-Metrix is sensitive to cohesion relations, world knowledge, and language and discourse characteristics.

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Question Asking During Tutoring

A. Graesser, N. Person
Education
1 March 1994

Whereas it is well documented that student question asking is infrequent in classroom environments, there is little research on questioning processes during tutoring. The present study investigated…

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Dynamics of affective states during complex learning

S. D’Mello, A. Graesser
Psychology
1 April 2012

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Source Evaluation, Comprehension, and Learning in Internet Science Inquiry Tasks

J. Wiley, S. Goldman, A. Graesser, C. Sanchez, Ivan Ash, J. Hemmerich
Psychology
1 December 2009

In two experiments, undergraduates’ evaluation and use of multiple Internet sources during a science inquiry task were examined. In Experiment 1, undergraduates had the task of explaining what caused…

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The Construction of Situation Models in Narrative Comprehension: An Event-Indexing Model

Rolf A. Zwaan, M. C. Langston, A. Graesser
Computer Science
1 September 1995

A model of how readers construct representations of the situations described in simple narratives the event-indexing model is proposed and the results of a verb-clustering task provide strong support for the model.

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Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix: Introduction

D. McNamara, A. Graesser, Philip M. McCarthy, Zhiqiang Cai
Education
2014

This informative article might allow one to locate universe that could not believe it is previously, and furthermore by exactly what points as possible problem together with to generate concept.

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Better to be frustrated than bored: The incidence, persistence, and impact of learners' cognitive-affective states during interactions with three different computer-based learning environments

R. Baker, S. D’Mello, M. Rodrigo, A. Graesser
Psychology
Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud.
1 April 2010

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Affect and learning: An exploratory look into the role of affect in learning with AutoTutor

Scotty D. Craig, A. Graesser, Jeremiah Sullins, B. Gholson
Psychology
1 October 2004

The role that affective states play in learning was investigated from the perspective of a constructivist learning framework. We observed six different affect states (frustration, boredom, flow,…

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