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Mcnamara, Danielle S.; Shapiro, Amy M. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2005
Users of educational hypertext are faced with the challenge of creating meaning both within and between texts. Cohesion is an important factor contributing to whether a reader is able to capture meaning and comprehend text. When readers are required to fill in conceptual gaps in text, comprehension can fail if they do not have sufficient…
Descriptors: Hypermedia, Rhetoric, Metacognition, Multimedia Instruction

Tolhurst, Denise; Debus, Raymond L. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2002
Describes a study of Australian secondary school students that identified the conditions and individual characteristics that would best support learners' acceptance of control within hypermedia, based on evidence from the learner control literature. Investigated effects of prior domain knowledge, learning activity structure, ability, and attitudes…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Foreign Countries