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Berkeley, Sheri; King-Sears, Margaret E.; Vilbas, Jessica; Conklin, Sarah – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2016
Textbooks are heavily used in secondary-level content area classes, but previous research has identified numerous challenges for students associated with reading and understanding these texts. While students can learn reading strategies that help them better understand text, it is unclear the extent to which textbooks are written to promote or…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Reading Comprehension, Social Studies, Middle Schools
Tetlan, W. Lou – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examined whether the design of textbook material affects comprehension and memory of textbook material under certain cognitive conditions for proficient and remedial readers. Using quantitative and qualitative research methods, format was found to significantly affect comprehension and memory. Proficient Male scored significantly…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Textbook Content, Technical Institutes, Textbooks
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Kools, Marieke; van de Wiel, Margaretha W. J.; Ruiter, Robert A. C.; Cruts, Anica; Kok, Gerjo – Health Education & Behavior, 2006
This study examined the effect of graphic organizers on the comprehension of a health education brochure text and compared subjective with objective comprehension measures. Graphic organizers are graphical depictions of relations among concepts in a text. Participants read a brochure text about asthma with and without these organizers, and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Health Education, Likert Scales, Publications
Lott, Pam – 1994
A study investigated whether informational graphics help attract the reader to a newspaper story, prolong reader interaction, and increase reader knowledge. Five versions of a small informational graphic and a related 10-inch non-lead story published on the bottom of a newspaper page were tested on 300 participants (a non-probability sample of…
Descriptors: Adults, Color, Higher Education, Illustrations