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Kalman, Calvin S.; Sobhanzadeh, Mandana; Thompson, Robert; Ibrahim, Ahmed; Wang, Xihui – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
This study was based on the hypothesis that students' epistemological beliefs could become more expertlike with a combination of appropriate instructional activities: (i) preclass reading with metacognitive reflection, and (ii) in-class active learning that produces cognitive dissonance. This hypothesis was tested through a five-year study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Intervention, Attitude Change
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Hidi, Suzanne; Berndorff, Dagmar; Ainley, Mary – Learning and Instruction, 2002
Examined how a combination of motivational and instructional variables can be best used in an intervention program to improve students' emotional and cognitive experiences during argument writing. Results for 177 students at a junior intermediate level in Ontario, Canada, show that the intervention programs, which involved instructions on argument…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Intervention
Crowhurst, Marion – 1987
Focusing on the effects of three interventions on students' reading and writing of persuasive discourse, a study investigated (1) whether the writing of persuasive discourse can be improved by instruction, and (2) the effect of reading on writing and of writing on reading within the persuasive mode. Subjects, 100 Canadian sixth graders stratified…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades