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Refutation Texts Compensate for Detrimental Effects of Misconceptions on Comprehension and Metacomprehension Accuracy and Support Transfer
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Prinz, Anja; Golke, Stefanie; Wittwer, Jörg – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Misconceptions impair not only learners' comprehension of a text but also the accuracy with which they judge their comprehension, that is, "metacomprehension accuracy." Refutation texts are beneficial to elicit conceptual-change processes and thus to overcome the detrimental impact of misconceptions on comprehension. However, it is…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Accuracy, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension
Examining the Reasoning of Conflicting Science Information from the Information Processing Perspective--An Eye Movement Analysis
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Yang, Fang-Ying – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
The main goal of this study was to investigate how readers' visual attention distribution during reading of conflicting science information is related to their scientific reasoning behavior. A total of 25 university students voluntarily participated in the study. They were given conflicting science information about earthquake predictions to read…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Scientific and Technical Information, Thinking Skills, Seismology
Effects of Text Structure, Reading Goals and Epistemic Beliefs on Conceptual Change
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Trevors, Gregory; Muis, Krista R. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2015
We investigated the online and offline effects of learner and instructional characteristics on conceptual change of a robust misconception in science. Fifty-nine undergraduate university students with misconceptions about evolution were identified as espousing evaluativist or non-evaluativist epistemic beliefs in science. Participants were…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Characteristics, Attitude Change, Scientific Attitudes
Reader and Text Factors in Reading Comprehension Processes
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Kendeou, Panayiota; Muis, Krista R.; Fulton, Sandra – Journal of Research in Reading, 2011
The effects of epistemic beliefs and text structure on cognitive processes during comprehension of scientific texts were investigated. On-line processes were measured using think-aloud (Experiment 1) and reading time (Experiment 2) methodologies. Measures of off-line comprehension, prior knowledge and epistemic beliefs were obtained. Results…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Text Structure, Protocol Analysis, Prior Learning
The Role of Prior Knowledge in Learning from Analogies in Science Texts
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Braasch, Jason L. G.; Goldman, Susan R. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Two experiments examined whether inconsistent effects of analogies in promoting new content learning from text are related to prior knowledge of the analogy "per se." In Experiment 1, college students who demonstrated little understanding of weather systems and different levels of prior knowledge (more vs. less) of an analogous everyday…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Prior Learning, Misconceptions, Protocol Analysis
Negotiating Literacy Identity in the Face of Perceived Illiteracy: What Counts as Being Literate as an Adult and Who Decides?
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Benson, Sheila – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2010
This article examines the case of an adult reader who has developed literacy practices that represent a wide range of authentic, personally and professionally motivated purposes for reading and writing. Despite this wide range of literacy practices, however, and despite the opportunities they have opened for him, Joseph (his chosen pseudonym)…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Illiteracy, Adult Literacy, Self Concept