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Direct linkO'Reilly, Tenaha; Sabatini, John; Wang, Zuowei – Grantee Submission, 2019
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the impact of students' background knowledge and how they utilized "don't know" affordances to comprehend and learn from text. In two studies, over 8,000 middle and high school students interacted with a content-area learning environment in which they answered a series of background…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Knowledge Level, Affordances
Doumas, Leonidas A. A.; Morrison, Robert G.; Richland, Lindsey Engle – Grantee Submission, 2018
Diagrams are powerful opportunities for grappling with and learning abstract relationships, for example learning the relations between elements in an ecosystem rather than simply memorizing the objects within the system. Further, what is crucial from any diagrammatic learning opportunity is the ability to use this relational knowledge in a new…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Abstract Reasoning, Logical Thinking, Attention
