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Kvernbekk, Tone – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
In this paper I analyze the role of hindsight in narrative configuration. Configuration means the grasping together of disparate elements into a coherent whole. I argue that hindsight, importantly, brings the temporal constraints on what we can know to the fore, but is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, hindsight is an indispensable tool both…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Personal Narratives, Memory, Story Grammar
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Ardac, Dilek; Unal, Serap – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2008
The present study examines how changes in the amount of on-screen text will influence student learning from a multimedia instructional unit on basic concepts of coordinate geometry. The relative effectiveness of two different versions (short-text and whole-text) of the instructional unit was examined for students who differed in terms of their…
Descriptors: Memory, Grade 7, Geometry, Multimedia Instruction
Olson, David R. – 1989
Textual meaning is not autonomous--not only do the meanings of texts change as contexts change but also the textual or sentence meanings change as cultural conventions change. A series of preliminary studies have established that children into the early school years believe that the speaker's intentions, especially when the speaker's belief is…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Development, Educational Research, Elementary Education
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Long, Debra L.; Wilson, Jeannette; Hurley, Ryan; Prat, Chantel S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Readers construct at least 2 interrelated mental representations when they comprehend a text: a textbase and a situation model. Two experiments were conducted with recognition memory to examine how domain knowledge and text coherence influence readers' textbase and situation-model representations. In Experiment 1, participants made remember-know…
Descriptors: Psychological Evaluation, Text Structure, Recognition (Psychology), Cognitive Processes
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Bacon, Ellen H.; Carpenter, Dale – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1989
The study found that college students with learning disabilities (LD) were as able as nondisabled students to use story grammar and comparison text structure to aid recall of social studies text passages. However, LD students scored significantly lower on use of causation text structure. Results suggest that use of comparison structures precede…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities