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Clinton, Virginia; van den Broek, Paul – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
Topic interest and learning from texts have been found to be positively associated with each other. However, the reason for this positive association is not well understood. The purpose of this study is to examine a cognitive process, inference generation, that could explain the positive association between interest and learning from texts. In…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Reading Comprehension, Undergraduate Students, Inferences
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Wigent, Catherine A. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
This study examined above average high school readers and high school readers with learning disabilities in order to better understand the impact of twelve years of formal education on reading skills and strategy use while reading expository text. This study examined reading strategies related to knowledge construction, monitoring, and evaluating…
Descriptors: High School Students, High Achievement, Learning Disabilities, Reading Strategies
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Panadero, Ernesto; Tapia, Jesus Alonso; Huertas, Juan Antonio – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
This study compares the effects of two different self-assessment tools--rubrics and scripts--on self-regulation, learning and self-efficacy in interaction with two other independent variables (type of instructions and feedback). A total of 120 secondary school students analyzed landscapes--a usual task when studying Geography--in one of twelve…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy, Secondary School Students, Feedback (Response)