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Rachel Best

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Publications

20

Citations

1.5K

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17

Active since

2004

Affiliations

University of Memphis(Current)

Lancaster University

University of Exeter

Rachel Best is an author at University of Memphis specializing in education, language comprehension, and language studies.

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EducationLanguageLanguage ComprehensionReading ComprehensionReading Comprehension StrategiesLanguage LearningLinguisticsPsycholinguisticsLanguage AcquisitionCognitive Development

Publications per year

2004–2015

20

Publications

20

Differential Competencies Contributing to Children's Comprehension of Narrative and Expository Texts

Rachel Best, Randy G. Floyd, Danielle S. McNamara · Reading Psychology · 2008 · 367 citations

Language Development, Narrative Text, Education +22

Improving Adolescent Students' Reading Comprehension with Istart

Danielle S. McNamara, Tenaha O’Reilly, Rachel Best et al. · Journal of Educational Computing Research · 2006 · 205 citations

Education, Reading Comprehension Strategies, Child Literacy +17

Deep-Level Comprehension of Science Texts

Rachel Best, Michael Rowe, Yasuhiro Ozuru et al. · Topics in Language Disorders · 2005 · 187 citations

Many Inferences, Science Education, Text Structure +21

Influence of Question Format and Text Availability on the Assessment of Expository Text Comprehension

Yasuhiro Ozuru, Rachel Best, Courtney M. Bell et al. · Cognition and Instruction · 2007 · 137 citations

Passage Availability, Question Answering, Reading Comprehension +13

Third Parties, Violence, and Conflict Resolution

Mark Levine, Paul Taylor, Rachel Best · Psychological Science · 2011 · 129 citations

Media Violence, Law, Social Influence +17

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