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McCarthy, Kathryn S.; Allen, Laura K.; Hinze, Scott R. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Open-ended "constructed responses" promote deeper processing of course materials. Further, evaluation of these explanations can yield important information about students' cognition. This study examined how students' constructed responses, generated at different points during learning, relate to their later comprehension outcomes.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Prediction, Responses, College Students
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Or-Kan, Soh – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
This study aimed at examining context effects of processing science terminology in Chinese during the reading process. The science texts were first chosen, and then they were replaced by science terminology with familiar words; other common words remained in both texts. The results implied that readers spent longer rereading durations and total…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Vocabulary, Language Processing, Eye Movements
McArthur, Kerry Gordon – ProQuest LLC, 2007
Reform in the fields of adolescent and content area literacy have focused on broadening a definition of literacy beyond the ability to read and write. In a broader definition the language processes of reading, writing, speaking and listening become literacy tools to engage students in the learning of concepts and afford the learner ways to…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Constructivism (Learning), Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses