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Download full textAnnika Buell; Sohyun Meacham – Issues and Trends in Learning Technologies, 2024
The current study examined the actions and thought processes second grade students experience while reading online, implementing a research based teaching strategy for new literacies, and Internet Reciprocal Teaching (IRT). In particular, strategies for how to critically evaluate online text were introduced to second grade students. Through IRT,…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Information Literacy, Credibility
Direct linkGrady, Rebecca Hofstein; Ditto, Peter H.; Loftus, Elizabeth F. – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2021
Politically oriented "fake news"--false stories or headlines created to support or attack a political position or person--is increasingly being shared and believed on social media. Many online platforms have taken steps to address this by adding a warning label to articles identified as false, but past research has shown mixed evidence…
Descriptors: Deception, News Reporting, Political Attitudes, Social Media
Weihong Chen – English in Education, 2025
This study explores writing in an Internet environment from a translanguaging perspective. Through the analysis of screen recordings, stimulated recalls and interviews, the study reveals 12 Chinese EFL undergraduates' engagement with four specific cognitive processes: source searching, evaluation, reading and integration. It also identifies their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Banerjee, Mita; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
One of the central challenges educators face today, especially in higher education, is the gap between warranted (domain-specific) knowledge and the prior beliefs students hold about certain concepts and phenomena (preconceptions). In the Internet age, students often self-directedly acquire knowledge from an increasingly large number of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Processes, Decision Making, Cognitive Processes
DerKhachadourian, Liza – Online Submission, 2019
Many university undergraduates consider writing assignments an overwhelming requirement. Traditional instructions rarely provide students with clear directions of how to use the Internet to search for authentic material and complete a task. The aim of this study was to scaffold the competence of EFL university students in writing an informative…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Sparks, Jesse R.; Deane, Paul – ETS Research Report Series, 2015
Current educational standards call for students to engage in the skills of research and inquiry, with a focus on gathering evidence from multiple information sources, evaluating the credibility of those sources, and writing an integrated synthesis that cites evidence from those sources. Opportunities to build strong research skills are critical,…
Descriptors: Research Skills, Cognitive Tests, English, Language Arts
Goldman, Susan R.; Braasch, Jason L. G.; Wiley, Jennifer; Graesser, Arthur C.; Brodowinska, Kamila – Reading Research Quarterly, 2012
Readers increasingly attempt to understand and learn from information sources they find on the Internet. Doing so highlights the crucial role that evaluative processes play in selecting and making sense of the information. In a prior study, Wiley et al. (2009, Experiment 1) asked undergraduates to perform a web-based inquiry task about volcanoes…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Internet, Protocol Analysis, Information Literacy
Painter, David Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2011
There are two distinct purposes to this investigation: to develop the predictive power of the theory of political information efficacy and to determine how exposure to political information formats on the Internet under distinctly different interactive conditions affects cognitive and affective processes. Examined in the first section of this…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Internet, Information Utilization, Politics
Painter, David Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2011
There are two distinct purposes to this investigation: to develop the predictive power of the theory of political information efficacy and to determine how exposure to political information formats on the Internet under distinctly different interactive conditions affects cognitive and affective processes. Examined in the first section of this…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Information Seeking, Political Attitudes, Internet
Brandt, D. Scott; Uden, Lorna – Educational Technology, 2002
Discusses the use of applied cognitive task analysis (ACTA) to interview novices and gain insight into their cognitive skills and processes. Focuses particularly on novice Internet searchers at the University of Staffordshire (United Kingdom) and reviews attempts to modify ACTA, which is intended to gather information from experts as part of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Data Collection, Information Sources, Instructional Design
Wright, Kathleen M.; Granger, Mary J. – 2001
This paper reports the findings of an experiment designed to test extensions of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) within the context of using the World Wide Web to gather and analyze financial information. The proposed extensions are three-fold. Based on prior research, cognitive absorption variables are posited as predeterminants of ease of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Information Sources
Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
