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Measuring discourse-level processes with verbal protocols and latent semantic analysis - methodology: experimental procedure

  • Participants shown one sentence at once and told to write down what they think
  • Once sentences are shown, they remain on the screen so participants can refer back to them if needed
  • 54 participants randomly assigned to thunderstorm and food chain texts and the other 52 randomly assigned to coal and heart texts
  • Participants took Nelson-Denny reading comprehension test after reading each passage and after reading both passages, an additional 2 short answer tests about both texts
  • Short answer test consisted of 4 text-based questions on specific details from one sentence and 4 situation model questions that require inferences over multiple sentences

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Updated 2021-06-22

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