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Coherence Building While Reading Multiple Complementary Documents
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Matthew T. McCrudden; Linh Huynh; Bailing Lyu; Jonna M. Kulikowich; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2024
Readers build a mental representation of text during reading. The coherence building processes readers use to build a mental representation during reading is key to comprehension. We examined the effects of self- explanation on coherence building processes as undergraduates (n =51) read five complementary texts about natural selection and…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Undergraduate Students, Evolution
Promoting Integration and Learning from Multiple Complementary Texts
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McCrudden, Matthew T.; Kulikowich, Jonna M.; Lyu, Bailing; Huynh, Linh – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
In this experiment we investigated whether the presentation of domain principles within one text facilitates reading to learn from multiple exemplar texts that feature the importance of the principles. There were five texts about natural selection: a principles text, which described principles of natural selection, and four exemplar-based texts…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learning Processes, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension
Pickup of Causal Language and Inference during and after Reading Scientific Text
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Cromley, Jennifer G.; Ma, Shufeng; Van Boekel, Martin; Parpucu Dane, Aygul – Reading Psychology, 2020
When reading scientific text, readers must draw inferences when the author does not make relations explicit; readers also need to pick up on causal relations that the author "does" make explicit. We collected think-aloud protocols from 86 undergraduate biology students reading 7 brief, illustrated passages about the immune system. After…
Descriptors: Inferences, Protocol Analysis, Undergraduate Students, Attribution Theory
Pickup of Causal Language and Inference during and after Reading Scientific Text
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Cromley, J. G.; Ma, S.; Van Boekel, M.; Dane, N. – Grantee Submission, 2020
When reading scientific text, readers must draw inferences when the author does not make relations explicit; readers also need to pick up on causal relations that the author "does" make explicit. We collected think-aloud protocols from 86 undergraduate biology students reading 7 brief, illustrated passages about the immune system. After…
Descriptors: Inferences, Protocol Analysis, Undergraduate Students, Attribution Theory
Bridging Inferences and Learning from Multiple Complementary Texts
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McCrudden, Matthew T.; Huynh, Linh; Lyu, Bailing; Kulikowich, Jonna M. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
The purpose of this study was to investigate bridging inferences and learning when students with low topic knowledge read multiple complementary biology texts. Using a think-aloud protocol, we assessed students' (n = 74) cognitive processes while they read one text about principles of natural selection and three texts about examples of natural…
Descriptors: Inferences, Knowledge Level, Prior Learning, Biology
Effects of Text Structure, Reading Goals and Epistemic Beliefs on Conceptual Change
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Trevors, Gregory; Muis, Krista R. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2015
We investigated the online and offline effects of learner and instructional characteristics on conceptual change of a robust misconception in science. Fifty-nine undergraduate university students with misconceptions about evolution were identified as espousing evaluativist or non-evaluativist epistemic beliefs in science. Participants were…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Characteristics, Attitude Change, Scientific Attitudes