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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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College Students' Beliefs about Comprehension when Reading for Different Purposes
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Linderholm, Tracy; Wilde, Adam – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2010
Readers' beliefs about their understanding and test performance as a function of the reading purpose was examined. Participants read a series of expository texts for entertainment or study purposes, answered questions about the texts, and their beliefs about future and past test performance were assessed. The results showed that students believed…
Descriptors: College Students, Recreational Reading, Content Area Reading, Study Skills
Reading with Purpose
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Linderholm, Tracy – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2006
In college-level courses, the vast majority of students read expository textbooks with a primary purpose in mind: to memorize and, hopefully, understand enough information to receive a particular grade on a course exam. Intuitively, this kind of reading is different than the kind of reading that these same students do when reading a novel while…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Memorization, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies