A Cognitive View of Reading Comprehension: Implications for Reading Difficulties

Our aim in the present paper is to discuss a “cognitive view” of reading comprehension, with particular attention to research findings that have the potential to improve our understanding of difficulties in reading comprehension. We provide an overview of how specific sources of difficulties in inference making, executive functions, and attention allocation influence reading comprehension processes and outcomes and may lead to reading comprehension problems. Finally, we discuss how the consideration of these potential sources of difficulty have practical implications for the design and selection of instructional materials.     

From performance management to capacity-building: an escape from the cul de sac?

This article examines the many critiques of educational policies concerning the National Curriculum and the standards and testing regimes for pupils and teachers associated with it. It goes on to suggest that there is a danger of educational researchers and policy-makers arguing themselves into a cul de sac where an unproductive stand-off may prevail. It is argued that a more productive way forward is to be found in a focus on the ‘capacity-building’ of teachers using formative assessment and double-loop learning as the basis for action. This will present a challenge for teachers as well as for policy-makers.     

透过泪眼感怀爱

那是在感恩节后的那个周末,路易丝带着她的黑棕色混种可卡犬散步穿过屋子后面多山的小树林。那是个微寒的早上,薄雾扫过青草,穿过林木。在她们动身离家之前,路易丝为她那个毛茸茸的伙伴穿上了一件黄色外套。这只狗狗的名字叫黛西,她有点怕冷。路易丝喜欢给黛西穿上颜色鲜艳的衣服,因为这样的话,在黛西     

Afterword: in and out of the archives

This Afterword to the papers in the ARCS special issue on Knowledge Cultures assesses the historical approach contained in most of the essays in light of current concerns in archival science and among contemporary scholars in the field.