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Kathleen Stevens

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8

Publications

332

Citations

8

H-Index

1978

Active since

Affiliations

Northeastern Illinois University(Current)

DePaul University

Kathleen Stevens is an author at Northeastern Illinois University specializing in reading comprehension, education, and language comprehension.

Top concepts

Reading ComprehensionEducationLanguage ComprehensionLanguageLinguisticsText StructurePsycholinguisticsReading Comprehension StrategiesStatisticsEngineering

Publications per year

1978–1993

8

Publications

8

The Effect of Background Knowledge on the Reading Comprehension of Ninth Graders

Kathleen Stevens · Journal of Reading Behavior · 1980 · 74 citations

Text Structure, Language Development, Better Reading +26

Measuring the Readability of Business Writing: The Cloze Procedure Versus Readability Formulas

Kevin Stevens, Kathleen Stevens, William P. Stevens · Journal of Business Communication · 1992 · 60 citations

Readability Formulas, Education, Corpus Linguistics +19

Can We Improve Reading by Teaching Background Information

Kathleen Stevens · The Journal of Reading · 1982 · 55 citations

Teacher Education, Child Literacy, Reading Comprehension +5

Instantiation of Word Meanings in Children

Richard C. Anderson, Kathleen Stevens, Zohara Shifrin et al. · Journal of Reading Behavior · 1978 · 43 citations

Text Structure, Semantic Processing, Language Development +19

The Effect of Topic Interest on the Reading Comprehension of Higher Ability Students

Kathleen Stevens · The Journal of Educational Research · 1980 · 38 citations

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