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Epistemic Cognition when Students Read Multiple Documents Containing Conflicting Scientific Evidence: A Think-Aloud Study
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Ferguson, Leila E.; Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I. – Learning and Instruction, 2012
This study used think-aloud methodology to investigate 51 Norwegian undergraduates' topic-specific epistemic cognition while working with six documents presenting conflicting views on the issue of cell phones and potential health risks. Results showed that students' epistemic cognition was represented by one dimension concerning the certainty and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence, Protocol Analysis, Epistemology
No Correlation between Inferencing Causal Relations and Text Comprehension?
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Beishuizen, Jos; van der Schalk, Janine; Le Grand, Julie – Learning and Instruction, 1999
The causal network model of P. Van den Broeck and T. Trabasso (1986) was used to analyze the inferencing processes induced from verbal protocols from reading and thinking-aloud tasks. Results from 66 Dutch 10- and 11-year olds show no correlation between reading and think-aloud performance and comprehensive scores of a closed comprehension test.…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Correlation, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Intellectual Ability and Working Method as Predictors of Novice Learning.
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Veenman, Marcel V. J.; Elshout, Jan J. – Learning and Instruction, 1991
Fourteen high-intelligence and 13 low-intelligence first-year college students worked in a structured or unstructured simulation environment to learn correlational principles. Thinking-aloud protocols indicate that high-intelligence subjects exhibit a better working method than do low-intelligence subjects, and that working method is a strong…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Foreign Countries
Improving Reading through Thinking Aloud.
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Silven, Maarit; Vauras, Marja – Learning and Instruction, 1992
Effects of training in thinking aloud on the development of reading skills were examined for 64 sixth graders in 2 Finnish towns. Trainees adopted five of seven text processing strategies they were taught and were most responsive when the trainer modeled thinking aloud and guided students in the activity. (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 6