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Direct linkDiakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Mouskounti, Thalia; Ioannides, Christos – Reading Research Quarterly, 2011
The study compared the effects of a refutation text on comprehension and learning outcomes to those of a standard expository text. Undergraduate students with varying amounts of accurate and inaccurate prior knowledge read and recalled a refutation or an expository text about energy. Comprehension measures included the amount of text information…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reading Comprehension, Prior Learning, Inferences
