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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Contemp Educ Psychol. 2014 Jul 1;39(3):206–219. doi: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2014.05.003

Table 3. Arcsine transformed proportions (and standard deviations) of the think-aloud processes by condition and working memory.

Study Condition
Entertainment Condition
Think-Aloud
Process
Text Type Low WMa
(n = 19)
High WM
(n = 17)
Low WM
(n = 15)
High WM
(n = 17)
Paraphrases Compare-Contrast .65 (.33) .81 (.28) .67 (.36) .49 (.29)
Descriptive .67 (.36) .83 (.36) .78 (.31) .61 (.33)
Problem-Response .58 (.33) .74 (.38) .53 (.39) .45 (.31)
Chronological .58 (.39) .90 (.39) .76 (.30) .51 (.35)

Text-Based
Inferences
Compare-Contrast .18 (.22) .30 (.19) .32 (.18) .21 (.23)
Descriptive .25 (.22) .23 (.17) .09 (.12) .17 (.20)
Problem-Response .23 (.19) .30 (.21) .23 (.22) .19 (.21)
Chronological .20 (.24) .24 (.27) .08 (.17) .25 (.21)

Knowledge-
Based
Inferences
Compare-Contrast .54 (.28) .54 (.27) .45 (.24) .66 (.25)
Descriptive .51 (.28) .46 (.27) .29 (.25) .58 (.30)
Problem-Response .53 (.34) .67 (.23) .55 (.20) .71 (.29)
Chronological .51 (.28) .43 (.28) .53 (.25) .62 (.37)

Non-
Coherence
Processes
Compare-Contrast .42 (.33) .20 (.26) .35 (.35) .59 (.45)
Descriptive .27 (.35) .25 (.30) .40 (.46) .52 (.38)
Problem-Response .37 (.32) .31 (.36) .41 (.39) .63 (.42)
Chronological .44 (.42) .12 (.33) .41 (.49) .66 (.58)
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WM = Working Memory