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Carducci, Olivia M. – PRIMUS, 2020
The activity described in this paper is based on the idea that reading an introductory undergraduate mathematics text is similar to reading instructions. I want my students to think about how to read when the goal is to learn to complete a task. I give them written instructions for doing a card trick and ask them to complete the trick. The…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Reading Instruction
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Detillion, Ron – Reading Teacher, 2021
In this article, I showcase an informational text reading comprehension unit that centers on text features commonly found in science textbooks. I taught this unit to a sixth-grade class and highlighted the work samples of three focal students here. The overarching question that guided this work was as follows: How can I focus my instruction on…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Textbooks, Reading Comprehension
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Boubekki, Ahcène; Jain, Shailee; Brefeld, Ulf – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2018
Analyzing user behavior in electronic textbooks offers appealing insights into how pupils interact with the book and internalize the content. Using these insights may help to personalize the book, e.g., to support users with special educational needs. Conventional approaches often focus on atomic, user-triggered events like clicks or scrolls. In…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Textbooks, Student Behavior, Reader Text Relationship
Heaney, April – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In the past thirty years, new technologies and communication systems have shaped social practices, literacy learning, and ways of interacting with texts in profound ways. However, scholarship in the dawn of the digital age neglects large-scale glimpses of people's important literacy memories. Deborah Brandt's (2001) influential Literacy in…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Late Adolescents, Memory, Literacy Education
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Winchell, Adam; Lan, Andrew; Mozer, Michael – Cognitive Science, 2020
When engaging with a textbook, students are inclined to highlight key content. Although students believe that highlighting and subsequent review of the highlights will further their educational goals, the psychological literature provides little evidence of benefits. Nonetheless, a student's choice of text for highlighting may serve as a window…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Reading Comprehension, Student Interests, Reader Text Relationship
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Finlayson, Caitlin – Open Praxis, 2020
A growing body of research has demonstrated that open educational resources (OER) provide an opportunity for improvements in learning outcomes compared to traditional texts. This project builds on the Open Education Group's COUP framework to explore student and faculty use and perceptions of an open education World Regional Geography textbook.…
Descriptors: World Geography, Open Educational Resources, Textbooks, Blended Learning
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Hillman, Angela R.; Brooks, Anna R.; Barr, Marcus; Strycker, Jesse – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
While open educational resources (OER) have gained popularity, nearly three quarters of faculty are not aware they are available for use. However, when used, they are well received and do not negatively impact quality of learning. OER can be used within a variety of platforms, including software that aims to be more interactive and engage students…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Instructional Effectiveness, Introductory Courses, Exercise Physiology
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Berger, Margot – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2019
This paper explores different ways in which mathematics students read a section of a prescribed mathematics textbook. In this case, the students are mathematics teachers learning new mathematics in a self-study calculus course. Two students were video-taped, while they studied a prescribed portion of the textbook. The reading styles of these two…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Mathematics Instruction, Prior Learning, Textbooks
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Dahl, Amanda C.; Carlson, Sarah E.; Renken, Maggie; McCarthy, Kathryn S.; Reynolds, Erin – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: Complex features of science texts present idiosyncratic challenges for middle grade readers, especially in a post-Common Core educational world where students' learning is dependent on understanding informational text. The primary aim of this study was to explore how middle school readers process science texts and whether such…
Descriptors: Science Materials, Textbooks, Difficulty Level, Readability
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Jaeger, Elizabeth L. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2019
In the early 1960s, researchers began to conduct content analyses of core reading programmes/basal readers. Although these researchers often adopted a critical perspective, and examined the ideological underpinnings of the texts, they failed to make an explicit connection between ideologies and reader access to the text. The study described here…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Reading Programs, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
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Schnotz, Wolfgang; Wagner, Inga – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
Conjoint processing of text and pictures is assumed to possess an inherent asymmetry, because text and pictures serve fundamentally different but complementary functions. Conjoint processing is assumed to start with general, coherence-oriented mental model construction. When certain tasks have to be solved, the mental model is adjusted to the task…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Schemata (Cognition), Reading Comprehension
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Prasad, Deepak; Totaram, Rajneel; Usagawa, Tsuyoshi – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
In the last few years, open textbook development has picked up dramatically due both to the expense of commercially published textbooks and the increasing availability of high-quality OER alternatives. While this offers a tremendous benefit in terms of lowering student textbook costs, the question remains, to what extent (if any) do open textbooks…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Open Source Technology, Electronic Publishing, Reader Text Relationship
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Blikstad-Balas, Marte; Klette, Kirsti; Roe, Astrid – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The present study investigates the use of authentic texts (fiction and non-fiction) in 180 video-recorded language arts lessons across 46 secondary classrooms in Norway. It assesses how the texts are used and what kind of language arts-related activities and discourses students are engaging in. The study finds that a majority of the lessons do not…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Textbooks, Reader Text Relationship, Learning Activities
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Agrawal, Rakesh; Gollapudi, Sreenivas; Kannan, Anitha; Kenthapadi, Krishnaram – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2014
We present "study navigator," an algorithmically-generated aid for enhancing the experience of studying from electronic textbooks. The study navigator for a section of the book consists of helpful "concept references" for understanding this section. Each concept reference is a pair consisting of a concept phrase explained…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Textbooks, Navigation, Hypermedia
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Alexander, Joy; Jarman, Ruth – Literacy, 2015
The Royal Society Young People's Book Prize is awarded annually in the United Kingdom for the best science information book, and the winning book is chosen by panels of young people. This article discusses the findings of a study of the responses to the books and to their judging experience of young people who participated on panels in the 2011…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Adolescents, Nonfiction
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