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Carita Kiili; Helge I. Strømsø; Ivar Bråten; Jenni Ruotsalainen; Eija Räikkönen – Reading Psychology, 2024
This study sought to understand how well students (n = 274; M[subscript age] = 12.45) were able to identify the author, the main claim, and the supporting evidence (identification performance) and to justify the author's expertise, the author's benevolence, and the quality of the evidence (justification performance) while reading multiple online…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Prior Learning
Rahman, Taslima; Alexander, Patricia A.; Chae, Soo Eun – Reading Psychology, 2022
This paper describes the benefits of a psychometric analytic approach when studying students' ability to comprehend texts. A reading comprehension measure consisting of four text passages with 32 questions was developed, and analyses using a mean-based approach and linear logistic test (LLTM) method were performed. According to ANOVA, eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests
Urfali Dadandi, Pakize; Ungan, Suat – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
Many studies in the literature have addressed reading comprehension, the ultimate goal of the reading process, due to its complex nature. These studies have focused on various areas, such as the nature of reading comprehension, how it occurs, the factors that affect the process of comprehension, reading comprehension impediments, and how to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Student Motivation, Reading Comprehension, Nonfiction
Hattan, Courtney; Alexander, Patricia A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
The purpose of the current mixed-methods study was to investigate the effectiveness of a traditional and novel knowledge activation technique for supporting fifth and sixth graders' comprehension of exposition covering unfamiliar content. For the quantitative portion, 149 rural middle-school students were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 conditions:…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Rural Schools, Instructional Effectiveness
Yohannes, Abebayehu; Chen, Hsiu-Ling; Chang, Chiu-Chen – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
Mathematics reading and spatial ability are important learning components in mathematics education. However, in traditional instruction, it is difficult to develop learners' mathematics reading and spatial abilities. Therefore, many students struggle to understand real-world problems and lack the spatial ability to form internal imagery. To cope…
Descriptors: Electronic Books, Interaction, Middle School Students, Mathematics Skills
Köroglu, Mustafa; Balci, Ahmet – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
The aim of this research is to determine the strategies used by the 8th grade Turkish teachers in the teaching-learning process of the Turkish lesson for teaching comprehension (reading). The model of the research is the case study model, which is one of the qualitative research methods. The participants of the research are five Turkish teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Turkish, Reading Comprehension
Mason, Lucia; Zaccoletti, Sonia; Scrimin, Sara; Tornatora, Maria Caterina; Florit, Elena; Goetz, Thomas – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2020
This study investigated the contribution of both physiological and behavioural process data to the comprehension of conflicting digital texts. We measured skin conductance level (SCL) as an index of arousal and the first-pass and look-back fixation times as indices of visual behaviour while reading. Forty-eight seventh graders read four webpages…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Electronic Publishing, Eye Movements, Middle School Students
Peteranderl, Sonja; Edelsbrunner, Peter Adriaan; Deiglmayr, Anne; Schumacher, Ralph; Stern, Elsbeth – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Building on rich training literature, we examined which skills constituting the control-of-variables strategy (CVS) benefit from a comprehensive training, and which develop similarly during content-focused inquiry at ages 10-12. In addition, we examined whether prior knowledge, reasoning abilities, and reading comprehension explain variation in…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Skill Development, Training, Prior Learning
Beker, Katinka; van den Broek, Paul; Jolles, Dietsje – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Constructing a knowledge representation from multiple texts requires the integration of information across texts. The aim of the current study was to investigate how elementary school students integrate information across multiple text passages and, particularly, whether students use information from a prior text to improve understanding of a…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 6
Hattan, Courtney; Dinsmore, Daniel L. – Reading Horizons, 2019
Prior knowledge activation is a crucial component of reading comprehension. Previous studies have examined students' prompted (or solicited) purposeful knowledge activation, which occurs when the explicit goal is to activate knowledge, as well as ancillary knowledge activation, which is when students indirectly use their prior knowledge to fill in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Prior Learning, Reading, Grade 3
Guerrero, Tricia A.; Wiley, Jennifer – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Past research has suggested that there may be benefits in learning from expository science text when students study with the expectation that they will need to teach another student. The present experiments were designed to extend prior work by testing whether an effect would be seen on both immediate tests (similar to those used in most prior…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Peer Teaching, Expectation
Guerrero, Tricia A.; Wiley, Jennifer – Grantee Submission, 2021
Past research has suggested that there may be benefits in learning from expository science text when students study with the expectation that they will need to teach another student. The present experiments were designed to extend prior work by testing if an effect would be seen on both immediate tests (similar to those used in most prior studies)…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Peer Teaching, Expectation
Rosenstein, Ofra; Meir, Irit; Miller, Paul – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
The study explored the contribution of prior knowledge and reliance on L1 syntactic knowledge to L2 written sentence comprehension. Participants, 102 native Hebrew speakers at three education levels (junior high, high school, and postsecondary), answered questions in two sentence categories: Semantically plausible sentences that readers can…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Sentences, Reading Comprehension, Native Language
Forzani, Elena – Reading Research Quarterly, 2018
This study investigated how well seventh-grade students (n = 1,434) evaluated the credibility of online information in science. The analysis examined the extent to which evaluation appeared to share aspects of other elements of online research and comprehension, including locating, synthesizing, and communicating. This study also investigated the…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Scientific and Technical Information, Online Searching, Credibility
Lin, Show-Yu; Lin, Chen-Yung; Hsin, Ming-Chin – Journal of Biological Education, 2019
Visual representations are a familiar element of daily life and particularly beneficial as illustrations in science textbooks. In this case, learners draw on human dimensions such as cognitive style (CS) and prior knowledge (PK) when engaging in visual thinking. This study aimed to compare and explore the relationships among the format aspect…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Visual Learning, Cognitive Style, Illustrations