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An Investigation of Concept Mapping to Improve the Reading Comprehension of Science Texts
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Oliver, Kevin – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2009
This study investigated how well 74 6th-grade science students represented text structures from a 900-word textbook chapter on soil conservation, given a concept map template with four superordinate terms and 24 unsorted concepts. Findings suggest students were more successful at classifying pre-selected terms under given superordinate categories…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Reading Comprehension, Soil Science, Grade 6