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Barzilai, Sarit; Tal-Savir, Danna; Abed, Fayez; Mor-Hagani, Shiri; Zohar, Asnat R. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Visualizations may help students understand the network of connections among multiple documents. This study explored how ninth-grade students used a novel digital document mapping scaffold to construct models of multiple documents. We examined students' maps and mapping processes in order to understand how they used the scaffold to visually…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Secondary School Students, Grade 9, Visualization
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Sadoski, Mark; McTigue, Erin M.; Paivio, Allan – Reading Psychology, 2012
In this article we present a detailed Dual Coding Theory (DCT) model of decoding. The DCT model reinterprets and subsumes The LaBerge and Samuels (1974) model of the reading process which has served well to account for decoding behaviors and the processes that underlie them. However, the LaBerge and Samuels model has had little to say about…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Theories, Models, Comparative Analysis
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Maier, Johanna; Richter, Tobias – Cognition and Instruction, 2013
When reading multiple texts about controversial scientific issues, learners must construct a coherent mental representation of the issue based on conflicting information that can be more or less belief-consistent. The present experiment investigated the effects of text-belief consistency on the situation model and memory for text. Students read…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Science and Society, Information Sources, Critical Reading