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Rouet, Jean-Francois; Ros, Christine; Goumi, Antonine; Macedo-Rouet, Monica; Dinet, Jerome – Learning and Instruction, 2011
Two experiments investigated primary and secondary school students' Web menu selection strategies using simulated Web search tasks. It was hypothesized that students' selections of websites depend on their perception and integration of multiple relevance cues. More specifically, students should be able to disentangle superficial cues (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Cues, Semantics, Grade 7, Grade 12
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Stanat, Petra; Becker, Michael; Baumert, Jurgen; Ludtke, Oliver; Eckhardt, Andrea G. – Learning and Instruction, 2012
Immigrant students' school success is often hampered by limited second language (L2) proficiency, yet the effectiveness of different approaches to L2 support is unclear. Using a summer camp setting, we tested effects of (1) implicit support focusing on meaning of language by engaging students in language-intensive activities without drawing their…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Second Language Learning, Summer Programs, Language Skills
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Gamo, Sylvie; Sander, Emmanuel; Richard, Jean-Francois – Learning and Instruction, 2010
Transfer of strategies between problems sharing the same formal structure is facilitated by a semantic recoding that makes evident the structural similarities between the problems. Two experiments were carried out among 4th and 5th grade pupils, with an experimental group trained to compare strategies in order to reinterpret an arithmetic word…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Semantics, Word Problems (Mathematics)
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Scott, Brianna M.; Schwartz, Neil H. – Learning and Instruction, 2007
One hundred and six undergraduates searched a hypermedia environment under three navigational conditions, wrote an essay measuring their comprehension, and completed a test of metacognition. The map conditions were spatial/semantic, spatial only, and none. Analyses revealed that a navigational map capable of incurring an integrative cognitive…
Descriptors: Semantics, Hypermedia, Metacognition, Undergraduate Students
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Dockrell, Julie E.; Braisby, Nick; Best, Rachel M. – Learning and Instruction, 2007
The ability of school children (N = 233) to acquire new scientific vocabulary was examined. Children from two age groups (M = 4.8 and M = 6.5) were introduced to previously unknown words in an educational video. Word knowledge was assessed through accuracy and latency for production and comprehension over a 9-month period. A draw and write task…
Descriptors: Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Elementary School Students, Word Recognition
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Stahl, Elmar; Bromme, Rainer – Learning and Instruction, 2007
This article presents a semantic differential called Connotative Aspects of Epistemological Beliefs (CAEB) developed to assess university students' epistemological beliefs with adjective pairs such as dynamic-static and objective-subjective. After discussing the theoretical background, data are reported from two validation studies. The aim of the…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Semantic Differential, Natural Sciences, Epistemology