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Direct linkAriasi, Nicola; Mason, Lucia – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2011
This study examined whether reading a refutational or non-refutational text would induce different cognitive processing, as revealed by eye-movement analyses. Unlike a standard expository text, a refutational text acknowledges a reader's alternative conceptions about a topic, refutes them, and then introduces scientific conceptions as viable…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Attention, Scientific Concepts, Human Body
Oksa, Annishka; Kalyuga, Slava; Chandler, Paul – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
The reported study compared the instructional effectiveness of Modern English explanatory interpretations of Shakespearean play extracts integrated line by line into original Elizabethan English text, with a conventional unguided original text condition. Experiment 1 demonstrated that the explanatory notes group reported a lower cognitive load and…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Drama, Prior Learning, Program Effectiveness
