| The goals of this project were to determine if the landscape model could equally predict how skilled and less skilled readers recalled texts and to tailor model fit to readers based on skill. Participants were grouped by reading skill and grouped by working memory capacity. They read texts and recalled them immediately or after a 2-3 day delay. The recalls were correlated with landscape models that had various working memory caps and amount of specified causal relations. Findings include no significant difference between reading skill levels for the default model, working memory groups for all levels of working memory cap, and models that include causality and those that do not. Therefore, the null effects support the claim that the model generalizes to readers of differing skill. Issues regarding how the model was implemented and the validity of the working memory measure were discussed. |
