Prompting underspecified responses improves children's performance on both local and global coherence inference questions at all ages¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q3
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Subclaims¶

q3 i? Prompted performance was significantly higher than unprompted performance for both local and global coherence inferences. → Currie 2015

Evidence¶

Currie 2015¶

Currie, N. K., & Cain, K. (2015). Children's inference generation: The role of vocabulary and working memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 137, 57–75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2015.03.005

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Paired comparisons of unprompted versus prompted scores across the 130-child sample listening to short narratives showed significant improvement after prompts for both inference types, "local, t(129) = 15.72; global, t(129) = 12.08; ps < .001". No effect size is printed, so impact is null.

"The difference between unprompted and prompted scores (collapsed across age group) was significant for both types of inference: local, t(129) = 15.72; global, t(129) = 12.08; ps < .001."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Inferencing — outcome: instruction changes it

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