Robert Lorch
- Text processing
- Elementary science instruction
My research is in two different areas. For a long time, I have conducted research on text processing, particularly processing of expository material (i.e., textbook material) by adults. I am interested both in the processes underlying the comprehension of text as a person reads, and the processes by which a reader retrieves text information after reading. More recently, I have been doing research in elementary schools on science instruction. That research aims to design instructional interventions that are effective at teaching the logic and process of experimentation. It involves both lab-based and classroom-based research.
Professional Affiliations:
- American Educational Research Association
- American Psychological Society
- Fulbright Society
- Society for Text and Discourse
· Lorch, R.F., Jr., Lorch, E.P., Calderhead, W.J., Dunlap, E.E., Hodell, E.C., Freer, B.D. (in press). Learning the control of variables strategy in higher- and lower-achieving classrooms: Contributions of explicit instruction and experimentation. Journal of Educational Psychology.
· Lemarié, J., Lorch, R.F., Jr., Eyrolle, H., Virbel, J. (2008). A text-based and reader-based theory of signaling. Educational Psychologist, 43, 27-48.
· Hyönä, J., Lorch, R.F., Jr., Kaakinen, J. (2004). Effects of topic headings on text processing: Evidence from adult readers’ eye fixation patterns. Learning and Instruction, 14, 131-152.
· Hyönä, J., Lorch, R.F., Jr., Kaakinen, J. (2002). Individual differences in reading to summarize expository text: Evidence from eye fixation patterns. Journal of Educational Psychology, 94, 44-55.
· van den Broek, P., Lorch, R.F., Jr., Linderholm, T., Gustafson, M. (2002). The effects of readers’ goals on inference generation and memory for text. Memory Cognition, 29, 1081-1087.
- "Communicating printed headings to the ear." Ergonomics 59, 5 (2016): 633-40. Details. Full text
- "The effects of readers' goals on inference generation and memory for texts." Memory & cognition 29, 8 (2001): 1081-7. Details.
- "Effects of Headings on Text Processing Strategies." Contemporary educational psychology 26, 3 (2001): 418-428. Details.
- "Effects of Headings on Text Summarization." Contemporary educational psychology 26, 2 (2001): 171-191. Details.
- "Effects of headings and familiarity with a text on strategies for searching a text." Memory & cognition 28, 4 (2000): 667-76. Details.
- "The relation of story structure properties to recall of television stories in young children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and nonreferred peers." Journal of abnormal child psychology 27, 4 (1999): 293-309. Details.
- "Regression analyses of repeated measures data in cognitive research." Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition 16, 1 (1990): 149-57. Details. Full text
- "Locus of inhibition effects in the priming of lexical decisions: pre- or postlexical access?" Memory & cognition 14, 2 (1986): 95-103. Details.
- "Distractibility and vocabulary deficits in children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus." Developmental medicine and child neurology 27, 6 (1985): 713-20. Details. Full text
- "Interference and facilitation effects of primes upon verification processes." Memory & cognition 8, 5 (1980): 405-14. Details.
- "Learning from texts: activation of information from previous texts during reading." Reading and writing 29, (0): 1161-1178. Details.
