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Lishan Zhang; Lili Liu; Shuwen Wang; Min Xu; Sixv Zhang; Yun Tang – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: Collaborative reading can facilitate students' understanding of complex learning materials. High-quality annotations provided by peer learners are essential for successful collaborative reading. However, it remains to be understood how annotation quality affects reading comprehension. Objectives: A simulated collaborative reading…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Documentation, Reading Processes, Eye Movements
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Pickett, Sarah B.; Nielson, Catie; Marshall, Hydea; Tanner, Kimberly D.; Coley, John D. – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2022
Students possess informal, intuitive ways of reasoning about the world, including biological phenomena. Although useful in some cases, intuitive reasoning can also lead to the development of scientifically inaccurate ideas that conflict with central concepts taught in formal biology education settings, including evolution. Using antibiotic…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Assignments, Drug Therapy, Microbiology
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Sage, Kara; Augustine, Heather; Shand, Hannah; Bakner, Kaelah; Rayne, Sidny – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
We compared college students' learning from, and perceptions of, print and digital readings, with the goal of providing an informed recommendation for students and educators regarding best approaches for reading assignments. To add to the literature, we focused on a common experience in college -- reading an educational article -- in addition to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Printed Materials, Electronic Publishing, Educational Technology
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Bohn-Gettler, Catherine M.; McCrudden, Matthew T. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
This study investigated the effects of task relevance instructions and topic beliefs on reading processes and memory for belief-related text. Undergraduates received task instructions (focus on arguments for vs. against) before reading a dual-position text. In Experiment 1 (n = 88), a reading time methodology showed no differences in reading time…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Beliefs, Reading Processes, Memory
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Mokhtari, Kouider; Delello, Julie; Reichard, Carla – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2015
In this study, 935 undergraduate college students from a regional four-year university responded to an online time-diary survey asking them to report their multitasking habits and practices while engaged in four main activities: reading voluntarily for fun, reading for academic purposes, watching television (TV), and using the Internet. Results…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Diaries, Online Surveys, Recreational Reading
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Park, Seung Won; Kim, ChanMin – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2016
Poor student engagement with academic readings has been frequently reported in college classrooms. As an effort to improve college students' reading engagement, researchers have developed a virtual environment in which students take on the role of tutor and teach a virtual tutee, the virtual tutee system (VTS). This research examined the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Discourse, College Students, Reading Motivation
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Sandberg, Kate E. – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2013
Reading academic hypertext documents in college brings a new level of complexity that changes the definition of college reading and literacy. Knowing how to read these unpredictable, nonlinear texts requires familiarity and practice. The author describes the nature and usefulness of hypertext, reviews the challenges of reading hypertext, and…
Descriptors: College Students, Hypermedia, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Strategies
Bradshaw, Vicki – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This action research study is the culmination of several action cycles investigating cognitive information processing and learning strategies based on students approach to learning theory and assessing students' meta-cognitive learning, motivation, and reflective development suggestive of deep learning. The study introduces a reading…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Associate Degrees, Nursing Education
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Liu, Keming – Urban Education, 2006
The differences in the ability to write critical and analytical essays among students with individual annotation styles were investigated. Critical and analytical writing was determined by the writer's ability to respond to a text with logical and critical analysis and attention to its thematic argument. Annotation styles were determined by ways…
Descriptors: Writing Ability, Critical Thinking, Metacognition, Learning Strategies