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Wijekumar, Kausalai; Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; Lei, Puiwa; Cheng, Weiyi; Ji, Xuejun; Joshi, R. M. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2017
Reading and comprehending content area texts require learners to effectively select and encode with hierarchically strategic memory structures in order to combine new information with prior knowledge. Unfortunately, evidence from state and national tests shows that children fail to successfully navigate the reading comprehension challenges they…
Descriptors: Evidence, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Memory, Expository Writing
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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
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McNamara, Danielle S.; O'Reilly, Tenaha P.; Best, Rachel M.; Ozuru, Yasuhiro – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2006
This study examines the benefits of reading strategy training on adolescent readers' comprehension of science text. Training was provided via an automated reading strategy trainer called the Interactive Strategy Trainer for Active Reading and Thinking (iSTART), which is an interactive reading strategy trainer that utilizes animated agents to…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Adolescents, Reading Strategies, Teaching Methods
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Akbulut, Yavuz – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2008
This study investigated factors affecting second/foreign language (L2) reading comprehension in a hypermedia environment within the theoretical framework of dual coding and cognitive load theories, and interactive models of L2 reading. The independent variables were reading ability, topic interest, prior topical knowledge, and the number of times…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Correlation
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Poulsen, Robert; Hastings, Peter; Allbritton, David – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2007
Children from non-English-speaking homes are doubly disadvantaged when learning English in school. They enter school with less prior knowledge of English sounds, word meanings, and sentence structure, and they get little or no reinforcement of their learning outside of the classroom. This article compares the classroom standard practice of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Prior Learning, Sentence Structure, Sustained Silent Reading