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Schindler, Julia; Richter, Tobias – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
Learning can be made more efficient when learners generate the to-be-learned text contents instead of passively receiving them. A multi-level meta-analysis was conducted to provide an overall estimate of the text generation effect's magnitude and to identify theoretically and practically relevant moderators. Overall, generation interventions…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Processes, Text Structure
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Soares, Sara; Gonçalves, Matilde; Jerónimo, Rita; Kolinsky, Régine – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Narrative texts have been advocated as tools to tackle science learning challenges, and there is even the proposal of a "narrative effect" on learning. We believe it is necessary to examine previous evidence on this effect, as well as to characterize the process of learning through science narrative texts more broadly. In this article,…
Descriptors: Narration, Science Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Thorndyke, Perry W. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
This study examined how people use inferences to aid comprehension of connected discourse. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Language Research, Learning Processes