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Pressley, Michael; Afflerbach, Peter – 1995
Making the case that the human achievement of reading has few if any equals, this book uses protocol analysis data related to reading to develop a rich description and understanding of cognitive and affective processes during reading. The book concludes that reading is "constructively responsive"--that is, good readers are always…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Literature Reviews
Best, Linda – 1995
Cognitively oriented research on writing has altered the manner in which writing is understood and taught. In the 1970s, writing teachers were challenged to improve students' skills. Finding traditional, product-oriented methods inadequate, they were left to discover how they might guide students to develop their skills. L. Flower and J. R. Hayes'…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Models
Afflerbach, Peter – 1987
A series of three studies examined the influence of prior knowledge on expert readers' main idea construction processes. Eight expert readers read texts from familiar and unfamiliar content domains, and gave verbal reports of the processes they used for constructing main ideas. Five distinct main idea construction processes were reported: (1)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prior Learning, Protocol Analysis, Psycholinguistics
Folger, Terre; And Others – 1997
Researchers examined data from perceptual instruments administered to participants (36 undergraduate education students) during and following problem solving sessions. Think-aloud and interview analysis resulted in combining examination of the problems with the motivations and perceptions of the problem solvers. The nonemergent qualitative design…
Descriptors: Analogy, Education Majors, Higher Education, Interviews
Lunz, Mary E.; And Others – 1989
A method for understanding and controlling the multiple facets of an oral examination (OE) or other judge-intermediated examination is presented and illustrated. This study focused on determining the extent to which the facets model (FM) analysis constructs meaningful variables for each facet of an OE involving protocols, examiners, and…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Difficulty Level, Evaluators, Examiners
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McCarthy, Lucille Parkinson – Research in the Teaching of English, 1987
Describes a two-year study of one college student's efforts to produce appropriate content area writing in different disciplines. Using observation, interviews, composing-aloud protocols, and text analysis, evaluates the student's performance according to the Gricean rubric of conversation. Concludes that success was affected by unarticulated…
Descriptors: College English, Content Area Writing, Discourse Analysis, Expository Writing