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Courtney Hattan; Patricia A. Alexander; Sarah M. Lupo – Review of Educational Research, 2024
This systematic literature review examined the research on prior knowledge and its activation to ascertain how these terms are defined, what specific techniques have been empirically investigated, and the conditions under which prior knowledge activation facilitated students' comprehension. Fifty-four articles met the inclusion criteria and…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension, Educational Research, Definitions
Ayse Nur Kart – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Hearing loss adversely affects language and literacy development and reading difficulties of deaf and hard of hearing (d/Dhh) students are well documented by a large body of research. Effective instructional strategies that employ evidence-based strategies to support the reading development of d/Dhh students are required. Therefore, the purpose of…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Phonics, Visual Aids, Reading Instruction
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Lou, Yingling – TESL Canada Journal, 2020
Recent research on disciplinary literacy has called for a paradigm shift among secondary content teachers from perceiving themselves as disciplinary content transmitters to disciplinary literacy teachers who model and engage students in reading, writing, inquiring, and doing like experts within each discipline. How do content teachers incorporate…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Content Area Reading, English Language Learners, Teaching Methods
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Jaeger, Elizabeth L.; Pearson, P. David – Educational Forum, 2017
The Common Core State Standards and Response to Intervention are significant contemporary educational initiatives that have emerged largely in isolation from one another. We argue that an integration of these initiatives is beneficial. We trace the independent development of these two initiatives and offer suggestions for how they might fruitfully…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Response to Intervention, Educational Policy, Language Arts
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O'Reilly, Tenaha; Sabatini, John – ETS Research Report Series, 2013
This paper represents the third installment of the Reading for Understanding (RfU) assessment framework. This paper builds upon the two prior installments (Sabatini & O'Reilly, 2013; Sabatini, O'Reilly, & Deane, 2013) by discussing the role of performance moderators in the test design and how scenario-based assessment can be used as a tool…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Test Construction, Student Characteristics
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Södervik, Ilona; Mikkilä-Erdmann, Mirjamaija; Vilppu, Henna – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate elementary school pre-service teachers' understanding of photosynthesis and to examine if a refutational text can support understanding of photosynthesis better than a non-refutational text. A total of 91 elementary school pre-service teachers read either a refutational or a non-refutational text…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers
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Reid, Alan J.; Morrison, Gary M. – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2014
The digital revolution is shifting print-based textbooks to digital text, and it has afforded the opportunity to incorporate meaningful learning strategies and otherwise separate metacognitive activities directly into these texts as embedded support. A sample of 89 undergraduates read a digital, expository text on the basics of photography. The…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Prior Learning, Statistical Analysis
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Lee, Jia-Ying – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2015
This study compares the language learner and test-taking strategies used by Chinese-speaking graduate students when confronted with familiar versus unfamiliar topics in an English multiple-choice format reading comprehension test. Thirty-six participants at a large mid-western university performed three tasks: A content knowledge vocabulary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Statistical Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Sampson, Mary Beth; Linek, Wayne M.; Raine, I. Laverne; Szabo, Susan – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2013
This descriptive study employed mixed methods to explore preservice teachers' initial knowledge and subsequent use of explicitly taught reading comprehension strategies in primary grade classrooms during a year-long, field-based teacher preparation program. Self-Knowledge Rating Surveys, Strategy Multiple-Choice Tests, strategy logs, lesson plans,…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Preservice Teachers, Courses, Field Experience Programs
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Sterzik, Angela Meyer; Fraser, Carol – TESL Canada Journal, 2012
In academic environments, reading is assigned not simply to transmit information; students are required to take the information, and based on the task set by the instructor, assess, analyze, and critique it on the basis of personal experiences, prior knowledge, and other readings (Grabe, 2009). Thus text-based comprehension (Kintsch, 1998) alone…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Achievement Gap, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
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Alexander-Shea, Aimee – Social Studies, 2011
Although vocabulary development is an important part of the social studies curriculum, vocabulary activities are often inadequate, leaving students with cursory knowledge of terms. Worse still is the fact that many of the most critical words demarcating the field are not included in those activities. Therefore, a transformation from viewing…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Vocabulary, Learning Strategies, Prior Learning
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Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I. – Metacognition and Learning, 2011
This study explored the dimensionality of multiple-text comprehension strategies in a sample of 216 Norwegian education undergraduates who read seven separate texts on a science topic and immediately afterwards responded to a self-report inventory focusing on strategic multiple-text processing in that specific task context. Two dimensions were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Science Materials, Reading Strategies
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Wolfe, Michael B. W.; Woodwyk, Joshua M. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Background: Previous research suggests that narrative and expository texts differ in the extent to which they prompt students to integrate to-be-learned content with relevant prior knowledge during comprehension. Aims: We expand on previous research by examining on-line processing and representation in memory of to-be-learned content that is…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Prior Learning, Anatomy, Human Body
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McDonough, Darlene – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2012
This paper discusses the transition from traditional face to face instruction to a hybrid format using the newly drafted 8 Standards of the Educational Leadership Constituents Council (2010) as guidelines for the curriculum, the 14 Learner Centered Principles (1997) from the American Psychological Association as elements for instructional…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Student Centered Learning, Standards, Guidelines
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Salmeron, Ladislao; Kintsch, Walter; Kintsch, Eileen – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
This article explores the role of self-regulation in strategies that readers use to decide the order in which to read the different sections of a hypertext. This study explored 3 main strategies for link selection based on (a) link screen position, (b) link interest, and (c) the semantic relation of a link with the section just read. This study…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Semantics, Metacognition, Learning Strategies
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