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Gyllen, Justin G.; Stahovich, Thomas F.; Mayer, Richard E.; Darvishzadeh, Amirali; Entezari, Negin – Metacognition and Learning, 2019
The present work examines the accuracy of self-reports of study time for college students. In a 10-week Mechanical Engineering course, 99 college students accessed their textbook, homework solutions, graded work, and lecture slides via custom software that recorded objective measures of reading time. In addition, the students provided subjective…
Descriptors: College Students, Engineering Education, Study Habits, Reading Habits
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Schwamborn, Annett; Mayer, Richard E.; Thillmann, Hubertina; Leopold, Claudia; Leutner, Detlev – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
In this study, 9th-grade students (N = 196) with a mean age of 14.7 years read a scientific text explaining the chemical process of doing laundry with soap and water and then took 3 tests. Students who were instructed to generate drawings during learning scored higher than students who only read on subsequent tests of transfer (d = 0.91),…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Grade 9, Adolescents, Reading Comprehension