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No Correlation between Inferencing Causal Relations and Text Comprehension?
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Beishuizen, Jos; van der Schalk, Janine; Le Grand, Julie – Learning and Instruction, 1999
The causal network model of P. Van den Broeck and T. Trabasso (1986) was used to analyze the inferencing processes induced from verbal protocols from reading and thinking-aloud tasks. Results from 66 Dutch 10- and 11-year olds show no correlation between reading and think-aloud performance and comprehensive scores of a closed comprehension test.…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Correlation, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Intellectual Ability and Working Method as Predictors of Novice Learning.
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Veenman, Marcel V. J.; Elshout, Jan J. – Learning and Instruction, 1991
Fourteen high-intelligence and 13 low-intelligence first-year college students worked in a structured or unstructured simulation environment to learn correlational principles. Thinking-aloud protocols indicate that high-intelligence subjects exhibit a better working method than do low-intelligence subjects, and that working method is a strong…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Foreign Countries