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Walkington, Candace; Clinton, Virginia; Ritter, Steven N.; Nathan, Mitchell J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Solving mathematics story problems requires text comprehension skills. However, previous studies have found few connections between traditional measures of text readability and performance on story problems. We hypothesized that recently developed measures of readability and topic incidence measured by text-mining tools may illuminate associations…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematical Applications
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Yu, Fu-Yun; Pan, Kuan-Jung – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
The focus of this study was to investigate the effects of student-question generation with online prompts on student academic achievement, question-generation performance, learning satisfaction and learning anxiety. This study adopted a quasi-experimental research design. Two classes of eighth grade students (N = 64) from one middle school…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Learning Strategies, Cues, Electronic Learning
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Peters, Erin; Kitsantas, Anastasia – School Science and Mathematics, 2010
The purpose of the present explanatory mixed-method design is to examine the effectiveness of a developmental intervention, Embedded Metacognitive Prompts based on Nature of Science (EMPNOS) to teach the nature of science using metacognitive prompts embedded in an inquiry unit. Eighty-three (N = 83) eighth-grade students from four classrooms were…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Scientific Methodology, Scientific Principles, Academic Achievement