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Bautista, Judy Cañero; Gutierrez, Merry Ruth Morauda – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
Contemporary society demands from individuals new and relevant literacies that go beyond the basics of reading and writing. Furthermore, texts now appear less confined to a single semiotic resource. The proliferation of different forms of communication like visuals, among others, encourages people to use literacy in multiple modalities.…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Brun-Mercer, Nicole – English Teaching Forum, 2019
Literacy today requires not only the comprehension of traditional print texts, but also proficiency in twenty-first century technology (International Reading Association 2009). While reading online has become commonplace and in many instances mandatory, readers are not necessarily engaging with digital texts effectively or efficiently. Instructors…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Reading Rate
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Riddell, Judith E. – English in Education, 2016
This article is based on part of a case study looking into how sixth form students search for goal related information online for an open-ended task. Qualitative data was gathered through think-aloud protocols; analysis was informed by Afflerbach and Cho's (2009) Hypertext reading strategies. From the perspective of multiple documents literacy and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Information Sources
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Stromso, Helge Ivar; Braten, Ivar – Educational Psychology, 2009
Using a sample of 282 Norwegian upper secondary students, we examined whether two dimensions of topic-specific epistemic beliefs, concerning the certainty of knowledge and the justification for knowing, predicted students' understanding of seven texts representing partly conflicting views on climate change. Text comprehension was measured at three…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Information Sources, Climate, Beliefs
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Rafferty, Anna N., Ed.; Whitehill, Jacob, Ed.; Romero, Cristobal, Ed.; Cavalli-Sforza, Violetta, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2020
The 13th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2020) was originally arranged to take place in Ifrane, Morocco. Due to the SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) epidemic, EDM 2020, as well as most other academic conferences in 2020, had to be changed to a purely online format. To facilitate efficient transmission of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Teaching Methods, Information Retrieval, Data Processing
Jenkinson, Marion D. – J Reading Behav, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Practices, Information Sources, Language Patterns
Santeusanio, Richard P. – J Reading Spec, 1969
Descriptors: Bibliographies, College Students, Information Sources, Reading Comprehension
Osborn, Jean – Curriculum Review, 1986
Discusses recent reading research on strategies used by good readers; discusses National Academy of Education Commission on Reading's description of essential characteristics of good readers and recommendations from its report, "Becoming a Nation of Readers"; describes types of direct instruction for teaching reading strategies; and…
Descriptors: Educational Media, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Sources, Literature Reviews
Raphael, Taffy E.; And Others – 1983
A study was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of a training program to help teachers instruct students in finding the relationship between questions designed to test their comprehension of a text and the location of possible information for answering those questions. Specifically, the study examined whether training would enhance student…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Discovery Processes, Grade 4, Information Sources
Price, Anne; Crawford, Shawn; Tottle, Johanne; Maunula, Susan – Online Submission, 2006
This publication focuses on teaching students with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD). The first chapter identifies and explains AD/HD: its causes, characteristics, its diagnosis and assessment process, related conditions, and what it looks in the classroom. The following chapters offer information and sample strategies supporting…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Hyperactivity, Elementary Secondary Education, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)