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Direct linkLinderholm, Tracy; Wang, Xuesong; Therriault, David; Zhao, Qin; Jakiel, Laura – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2012
Introduction: Two experiments tested the hypothesis that relative metacomprehension accuracy is vulnerable when readers' cognitive efforts are biased by text order. It is proposed that the difficulty level of initial text information biases readers' estimates of text comprehension but is correctable when more cognitive effort is applied. Method:…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Cognitive Processes, Experiments
Olive, Thierry; Passerault, Jean-Michel – Written Communication, 2012
The authors suggest that writing should be conceived of not only as a verbal activity but also as a visuospatial activity, in which writers process and construct visuospatial mental representations. After briefly describing research on visuospatial cognition, they look at how cognitive researchers have investigated the visuospatial dimension of…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Cognitive Processes, Writing (Composition), Writing Processes
Akrofi, Amma; Janisch, Carole; Button, Kathryn; Liu, Xiaoming – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2010
Reader response theory and research on book interest underpinned a study of the appeal of celebrity-authored children's storybooks to elementary school students. We engaged fifth-grade students in selecting and reading from a set of 41 celebrity-authored books and completing reader response forms. Utilizing the survey research design and a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Childrens Literature, Research Design, Reader Response
Freed, Maxine – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Meaning making is central to transformative learning, but little work has explored how meaning is constructed in the process. Moreover, no meaning-making theory adequately captures its characteristics and operations during radical transformation. The purpose of this dissertation was to formulate and specify a multiperspectival conceptual model of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Transformative Learning, Hermeneutics, Pattern Recognition
