Gevinson identified five dimensions of expert literary reading behavior shared across expert readers¶

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Currency · newest study 1992 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 1997: baselines and conditions change

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q2 i? Despite differences in training, speciality, critical allegiance, age, and gender, expert readers shared a conception of literary understanding, and a follow-up analysis identified five dimensions of expert behavior: stance; sense of the whole; declarative knowledge base; procedural knowledge base; and attitudes, habits and beliefs. → Smagorinsky 1992

Evidence¶

Smagorinsky 1992¶

Smagorinsky, P., & Smith, M. W. (1992). The Nature of Knowledge in Composition and Literary Understanding: The Question of Specificity. Review of Educational Research, 62(3), 279-305. https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543062003279

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The review reports Gevinson's think-aloud study of four professors of English reading three stories and his follow-up reanalysis of the protocols, which identified the five dimensions of expert behavior. No effect size is printed.

"He identified five dimensions of expert behavior: stance; sense of the whole to be understood; declarative knowledge base; procedural knowledge base; and attitudes, habits and beliefs."

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