NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Clariana, Roy B.; Wolfe, Michael B.; Kim, Kyung – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2014
This investigation applies two approaches for representing and comparing text structures as undirected network graphs to describe the influence of narrative and expository lesson texts on readers' knowledge structure elicited as free recall. Narrative and expository lesson texts and undergraduate participants' free recall essays (n = 90)…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Cognitive Structures, Expository Writing, Narration
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Clariana, Roy B.; Wallace, Patricia E.; Godshalk, Veronica M. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2009
Essays are an important measure of complex learning, but pronouns can confound an author's intended meaning for both readers and text analysis software. This descriptive investigation considers the effect of pronouns on a computer-based text analysis approach, "ALA-Reader," which uses students' essays as the data source for deriving individual and…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cognitive Structures, Essays, Content Analysis