Inaccuracy and Reading

• In Event: Roundtable Session 29
  In Roundtable Session: Exploring Literacy Issues and Practices in Secondary Classrooms

Abstract

We have several goals for this roundtable presentation. First, we introduce the concept of inaccuracy in reading. Next, we explain and characterize inaccuracy. We then provide a model of how strategic readers recognize and deal with inaccuracy when reading multiple texts. Next, think aloud data from a study of accomplished high school students reading on the Internet are presented. The think-aloud data demonstrate readers’ strategic approaches as they encounter and reconcile inaccuracies in, and across, the texts they read.

Authors

• Peter P. Afflerbach, University of Maryland - College Park

• Byeong-Young Cho, Iowa State University

• Jong-Yun Kim, University of Maryland