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Direct linkAzevedo, Flavio S. – Cognition and Instruction, 2011
Based on a three-year-long ethnography of the hobby of model rocketry, I present a practice-centered theory of interest relationships--that is, the pattern of long-term, self-motivated engagement in open-ended practices that has been theorized under the concept of "individual interests". In contrast to extant theories of individual interests, in…
Descriptors: Interests, Ethnography, Vocational Interests, Barriers
Ozuru, Yasuhiro; Best, Rachel; Bell, Courtney; Witherspoon, Amy; McNamara, Danielle S. – Cognition and Instruction, 2007
This study examines how passage availability and reading comprehension question format (open-ended vs. multiple-choice) influence question answering. In two experiments, college undergraduates read an expository passage and answered open-ended and multiple-choice versions of text-based, local, and global bridging inference questions. Half the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Expository Writing, Test Format, Questioning Techniques
