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Direct linkMatthew T. McCrudden; Linh Huynh; Bailing Lyu; Jonna M. Kulikowich; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2024
Readers build a mental representation of text during reading. The coherence building processes readers use to build a mental representation during reading is key to comprehension. We examined the effects of self- explanation on coherence building processes as undergraduates (n =51) read five complementary texts about natural selection and…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Undergraduate Students, Evolution
Download full textMartin, Kit; Horn, Michael; Wilensky, Uri – Grantee Submission, 2019
This paper describes visitor interaction with an interactive tabletop game on the topic of evolutionary adaptations of social insects that we designed in collaboration with a large American museum. We observed visitors playing the game and talked to them about the experience. The game explores the emergent phenomena of ant behavior. Research has…
Descriptors: Incidence, Schemata (Cognition), Museums, Animal Behavior
Thompson, Clarissa A.; Taber, Jennifer M.; Fitzsimmons, Charles J.; Sidney, Pooja G. – Grantee Submission, 2021
People frequently encounter numeric information in medical and health contexts. In this paper, we investigated the math factors that are associated with decision-making accuracy in health and non-health contexts. This is an important endeavor given that there is relatively little cross-talk between math cognition researchers and those studying…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Numbers, Accuracy, Health
Wu, Sally P. W.; Rau, Martina A. – Grantee Submission, 2018
This paper investigates whether prompting students to draw their own visual representations enhances students' learning from technology-based instructional activities with visual representations. Seventy-two undergraduate students were randomly assigned to receive an educational technology with (1) drawing prompts throughout instruction, (2)…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Freehand Drawing, Prompting, Educational Technology
Bixter, Michael T.; McMichael, Samantha L.; Bunker, Cameron J.; Adelman, Robert Mark; Okun, Morris A.; Grimm, Kevin J.; Graudejus, Oliver; Kwan, Virginia S. Y. – Grantee Submission, 2020
People encounter intertemporal decisions every day and often engage in behaviors that are not good for their future. One factor that may explain these decisions is the perception of their distal future self. An emerging body of research suggests that individuals vary in how they perceive their future self and many perceive their future self as a…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Time, Decision Making, Predictor Variables
Angeline S. Lillard – Grantee Submission, 2019
School reform is an important national and international concern. The Montessori alternative school system is unique in that it is well-aligned with the science of healthy development and learning, has strong social-emotional "and" academic outcomes, is virtually unchanged in over a century, can be applied across all the school years,…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Educational Philosophy, Self Determination, Educational Psychology
