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Matthew T. McCrudden; Linh Huynh; Bailing Lyu; Jonna M. Kulikowich; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2024
Readers build a mental representation of text during reading. The coherence building processes readers use to build a mental representation during reading is key to comprehension. We examined the effects of self- explanation on coherence building processes as undergraduates (n =51) read five complementary texts about natural selection and…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Undergraduate Students, Evolution
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Tianlong Zhong; Gaoxia Zhu; Chenyu Hou; Yuhan Wang; Xiuyi Fan – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The significance of interdisciplinary learning has been well-recognized by higher education institutions. However, when teaching interdisciplinary learning to junior undergraduate students, their limited disciplinary knowledge and underrepresentation of students from some disciplines can hinder their learning performance. ChatGPT's ability to…
Descriptors: Influences, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Technology Uses in Education
Sina Rismanchian; Eesha Tur Razia Babar; Shayan Doroudi – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
In November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a groundbreaking generative AI chatbot backed by large language models (LLMs). Since then, these models have seen various applications in education, from Socratic tutoring and writing assistance to teacher training and essay scoring. Despite their widespread use among high school and college students in…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Technology Uses in Education, Undergraduate Students
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Gibson, Andrew; Kitto, Kirsty; Bruza, Peter – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2016
Modern society demands renewed attention on the competencies required to best equip students for a dynamic and uncertain future. We present exploratory work based on the premise that metacognitive and reflective competencies are essential for this task. Bringing the concepts of metacognition and reflection together into a conceptual model within…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reflection, Writing Assignments, Undergraduate Students
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Cook, Anne E.; O'Brien, Edward J. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2014
Previous text comprehension studies using the contradiction paradigm primarily tested assumptions of the activation mechanism involved in reading. However, the nature of the contradiction in such studies relied on validation of information in readers' general world knowledge. We directly tested this validation process by varying the strength of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Validity, Reliability, Undergraduate Students
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers