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The Neural and Cognitive Basis of Expository Text Comprehension
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Timothy A. Keller; Robert A. Mason; Aliza E. Legg; Marcel Adam Just – npj Science of Learning, 2024
As science and technology rapidly progress, it becomes increasingly important to understand how individuals comprehend expository technical texts that explain these advances. This study examined differences in individual readers' technical comprehension performance and differences among texts, using functional brain imaging to measure regional…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Correlation, Expository Writing, Reading Comprehension
The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Test Items of Expository Text among High School Students
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Briggs, Laura Clark; Kim, Jwa K. – Research in the Schools, 2017
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have recommended that students increase reading of expository texts in order to be successful in both the university setting and in the workplace. Yet, frequently, the demands of expository text involve prior knowledge that might be limited for students of low socioeconomic status (SES). In this study, we…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Expository Writing, Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension
Memory for Textual Conflicts Predicts Sourcing When Adolescents Read Multiple Expository Texts
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Stang Lund, Elisabeth; Bråten, Ivar; Brante, Eva W.; Strømsø, Helge I. – Reading Psychology, 2017
This study investigated whether memory for conflicting information predicted mental representation of source-content links (i.e., who said what) in a sample of 86 Norwegian adolescent readers. Participants read four texts presenting conflicting claims about sun exposure and health. With differences in gender, prior knowledge, and interest…
Descriptors: Memory, Expository Writing, Reading Processes, Foreign Countries
Generative Learning Strategy Use and Self-Regulatory Prompting in Digital Text
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Reid, Alan J.; Morrison, Gary M. – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2014
The digital revolution is shifting print-based textbooks to digital text, and it has afforded the opportunity to incorporate meaningful learning strategies and otherwise separate metacognitive activities directly into these texts as embedded support. A sample of 89 undergraduates read a digital, expository text on the basics of photography. The…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Prior Learning, Statistical Analysis
Comprehension and Learning from Refutation and Expository Texts
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Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Mouskounti, Thalia; Ioannides, Christos – Reading Research Quarterly, 2011
The study compared the effects of a refutation text on comprehension and learning outcomes to those of a standard expository text. Undergraduate students with varying amounts of accurate and inaccurate prior knowledge read and recalled a refutation or an expository text about energy. Comprehension measures included the amount of text information…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reading Comprehension, Prior Learning, Inferences
Processing and Memory of Information Presented in Narrative or Expository Texts
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Wolfe, Michael B. W.; Woodwyk, Joshua M. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Background: Previous research suggests that narrative and expository texts differ in the extent to which they prompt students to integrate to-be-learned content with relevant prior knowledge during comprehension. Aims: We expand on previous research by examining on-line processing and representation in memory of to-be-learned content that is…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Prior Learning, Anatomy, Human Body