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Direct linkCserni, Robert T.; Rademacher, Heidi E. – College Teaching, 2021
Studies show only 20 to 40 percent of students read assigned texts and are prepared for class discussions. To address this issue we created the "3-2-1 Reading Assignment," in which students engage in critical reading and deep learning by providing "three" points that summarize the text, "two" points that analyze it,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reading Assignments, Compliance (Psychology), Critical Thinking
Taneisha Vilma; Daniel A. Nuccio; Amanda M. Durik; M. Anne Britt – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2025
Introductory psychology students need supports to read and think in a discipline-specific way when learning psychology theories. We tested the effectiveness of using a task-model steps chart to help students understand, evaluate, and use theories presented in their introductory psychology textbook and lecture videos. We randomly assigned 52…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Psychology, Content Area Reading, Textbooks
Briley L. Lewis; Abygail R. Waggoner; Emma Clarke; Alison L. Crisp; Mark Dodici; Graham M. Doskoch; Michael M. Foley; Ryan Golant; Skylar Grayson; Sahil Hegde; Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas; Charles J. Law; R. R. Lefever; Ishan Mishra; Mark Popinchalk; Sabina Sagynbayeva; Samantha L. Wong; Wei Yan; Kaitlyn L. Ingraham Dixie; K. Supriya – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Undergraduate physics and astronomy students are expected to engage with scientific literature as they begin their research careers, yet reading comprehension skills are rarely explicitly taught in major courses. We seek to determine the efficacy of a reading assignment designed to improve undergraduate astronomy (or related) majors' perceived…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Process Skills, Astronomy
Theriault, Jennifer C. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2022
An important part of college learning is the ability to comprehend complex texts. Research indicates that epistemic beliefs--views about what knowledge is like and how people come to know--may guide readers' goals and behaviors. Metaphor is a tool for uncovering individual's beliefs. This article reports on a study examining 90 beginning…
Descriptors: College Students, Reading Comprehension, Academic Language, Figurative Language
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
Ritchey, K. A.; List, A. – College Teaching, 2022
Undergraduates report a variety of reasons for not reading assigned text(s), including confusion regarding instructors' expectations, while faculty report using reading as a major instructional tool and attest to the negative consequences of students' lack of reading. To bridge this divide, we propose Task-Oriented Reading Instruction (TORI) as a…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, Reading Comprehension, Compliance (Psychology), Undergraduate Students
Oliver, Dana – College Student Journal, 2022
The purpose of this research study was to investigate pedagogical approaches for improving reading compliance and critical, insightful discussion in the higher education classroom. Research on reading compliance in higher education reveals that students are often not reading their assigned texts. This problem compounds when instructors attempt to…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Compliance (Psychology), College Students, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Download full textHead, Alison J. – Project Information Literacy, 2021
While educators believe reading is an investment in learning and knowing, what many are not considering is what reading analytically means to civic life in the digital age when many of the old gatekeepers of traditional publishing are disappearing. As new voices have emerged, and there is an explosion of reading material, there is also less…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Undergraduate Students, Content Area Reading, Reading Materials
Kucan, Linda; Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan – Reading Psychology, 2023
This article describes a literacy methods course designed to introduce reading specialist candidates to research-based practices for comprehension instruction. Specifically, this article focuses on a sequence of assignments and class sessions within that course that introduced theoretical perspectives about comprehension processes and how those…
Descriptors: Reading Consultants, Reading Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Methods Courses
Oslawski-Lopez, Jamie; Kordsmeier, Gregory – Teaching Sociology, 2021
We investigate student listening compliance, preference for audio versus print content, and exam performance when professionally produced podcasts are assigned as "readings" and provided in both audio and print formats. Listening/reading compliance for the assigned podcasts was high compared with figures reported in previous research.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Handheld Devices, Audio Equipment, Best Practices
Dhanarattigannon, Jiraporn – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2022
Extensive reading with graded readers has been proved to be an approach that helps learners improve their reading ability. However, only a few studies have explored the effects of additive extensive reading with other types of reading materials on struggling EFL learners. This study investigated the effects of Science and Research Association…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Learning Activities
Tarchi, Christian – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2021
People need to critically comprehend information across multiple sources that express contradictory viewpoints to make decisions on relevant everyday-life issues and participate in the democratic discourse. However, the processing of multiple documents depends on readers' prior beliefs. The present study investigated the moderating effect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Prompting, Reading Comprehension
Integrating Reading and Writing in Testing Reading Comprehension of the Afghan EFL Language Learners
Noor, Shagofah – Cogent Education, 2021
This study was conducted to evaluate a potential new way of assessing reading comprehension at the college level in Afghanistan. In this study, synthesis writing is evaluated to determine if reading-writing integration can help in assessing the reading comprehension of Afghan sophomore students. Furthermore, a gap-filling activity was used to…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Reading Comprehension, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Egege, Sandra; Vered, Karen Orr – Across the Disciplines, 2019
It is commonly accepted in the academy that developing a critical thinking capacity and related capabilities will make students more effective thinkers and writers, and that these are desirable traits for graduates to have no matter what path they take after graduation. While most academics agree that critical thinking is an essential component of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Abstract Reasoning, Inquiry
Indrayadi, Toni – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2021
Motivation in reading is very important for engaging learners in reading activity which can affect better reading comprehension. However, without motivation in reading can affect the worst reading comprehension. Therefore, motivation in reading needs to be constructed first by the teachers. This study examined whether intrinsic and extrinsic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Reading Motivation, Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes
