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Direct linkKendeou, Panayiota; Walsh, Erinn K.; Smith, Emily R.; O'Brien, Edward J. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2014
In the present set of experiments, we systematically examined the processes that occur while reading texts designed to refute and explain commonsense beliefs that reside in readers' long-term memory. In Experiment 1 (n = 36), providing readers with a refutation-plus-explanation of a commonsense belief was sufficient to significantly reduce…
Descriptors: Long Term Memory, Beliefs, Misconceptions, Error Correction
Kelly, Dennis; Soyibo, Kola – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2005
This study was designed to find out if students taught food and nutrition concepts using the lecture method and practical work would perform significantly better than their counterparts taught with the lecture and teacher demonstrations and the lecture method only. The sample comprised 114 Jamaican 10th-graders (56 boys, 58 girls) selected from…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Experimental Groups, Nutrition, Objective Tests
