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Effects of Task Instruction and Personal Epistemology on the Understanding of Multiple Texts about Climate Change
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Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
In present-day knowledge societies, readers cannot understand complex issues without constructing meaning across multiple information sources. To what extent they are able to do so may depend on both characteristics of reading tasks and characteristics of readers themselves. In this study, 184 undergraduates read multiple texts about the complex…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Climate, Epistemology, Undergraduate Students
A Partridge in a Pear Tree.
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Otto, Wayne – Journal of Reading, 1986
Summarizes good reading research published in journals during 1986, focusing on studies that deal with reading comprehension, prior learning, and word recognition. (SRT)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Prior Learning
Developmental Trends in Lexical Decisions for Abstract and Concrete Words. Reading Research Report No. 1.
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Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Akin, Carolyn E. – 1993
Two experiments examined developmental trends in children's lexical decisions for abstract and concrete words. The first experiment examined children's on-line comprehension of abstract and concrete words. Subjects were 15 second or third graders and 15 college adults at the University of Georgia. The second experiment provided a stronger test of…
Descriptors: College Students, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Developmental Stages