Monitoring-of-Understanding Research: Inquiry Directions, Methodological Dilemmas.
A study testing poor readers’ facility at detecting informational inconsistency in text given three levels of explicitness in pre-reading direction is discussed. Also discussed are general question and method concerns in the area of monitoring-of-understanding research. Within the study, there appeared to be little reason to reject the error detection method on most grounds. However, experimental materials did present somewhat of a generalizability dilemma. That dilemma, and suggestions for further research in the area, are discussed in some detail.