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The Effects of the Format and Frequency of Prompts on Source Evaluation and Multiple-Text Comprehension
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Guo, Lin – Reading Psychology, 2023
This study investigated how and how often to present prompts to enhance students' source evaluation and multiple-text comprehension. Participants were 72 undergraduates who read a set of digital texts on a controversial topic of smartphone use and mental health, wrote a justification statement for their selection of trustworthy texts, and answered…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Information Sources, Evaluation Methods, Reading Comprehension
Empirical Determination of Competence Areas to Computer Science Education
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Zendler, Andreas; Klaudt, Dieter; Seitz, Cornelia – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2014
The authors discuss empirically determined competence areas to K-12 computer science education, emphasizing the cognitive level of competence. The results of a questionnaire with 120 professors of computer science serve as a database. By using multi-dimensional scaling and cluster analysis, four competence areas to computer science education…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Computer Science Education, Competence, Cognitive Processes
A Study of Classifying and Seriating Matrices. Technical Report No. 470. Report from the Project on Children's Learning and Development.
Sipple, Thomas S.; And Others – 1978
Matrix tasks designed to assess the logical properties of multiple classification and multiple seriation were administered to 105 first, third, and fifth grade children. The tasks included cross-class and double series matrices, each of which had a reproduction and a transposition instructional set, and a revised set of cross-class and double…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cross Sectional Studies