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50 Years of ERIC
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McCrudden, Matthew T.; Kendeou, Panayiota – Journal of Research in Reading, 2014
The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate the cognitive processes used by individuals who read a refutational text about physics and demonstrated conceptual change learning. Four high school readers whose initial conceptions differed from the scientific conception of Newton's first law thought aloud while reading a refutational…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Physics, High School Students, Interviews
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Clinton, Virginia; Seipel, Ben; Broek, Paul; McMaster, Kristen L.; Kendeou, Panayiota; Carlson, Sarah E.; Rapp, David N. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine if there are gender differences among elementary school-aged students in regard to the inferences they generate during reading. Fourth-grade students (130 females; 126 males) completed think-aloud tasks while reading one practice and one experimental narrative text. Females generated a larger number and a…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Protocol Analysis
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Kendeou, Panayiota; Muis, Krista R.; Fulton, Sandra – Journal of Research in Reading, 2011
The effects of epistemic beliefs and text structure on cognitive processes during comprehension of scientific texts were investigated. On-line processes were measured using think-aloud (Experiment 1) and reading time (Experiment 2) methodologies. Measures of off-line comprehension, prior knowledge and epistemic beliefs were obtained. Results…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Text Structure, Protocol Analysis, Prior Learning
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Tilstra, Janet; McMaster, Kristen; Van den Broek, Paul; Kendeou, Panayiota; Rapp, David – Journal of Research in Reading, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine the simple view of reading (SVR) and contributions of verbal proficiency and reading fluency to reading comprehension for fourth-, seventh- and ninth-grade readers (N = 271). The SVR explained a significant proportion of variance in reading comprehension for all grades with decreasing explained variance in…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Grade 7, Grade 9
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Kendeou, Panayiota; Bohn-Gettler, Catherine; White, Mary Jane; van den Broek, Paul – Journal of Research in Reading, 2008
In the present study, we investigated the degree to which children's inference generation ability generalises across different media and predicts narrative comprehension over and above basic language skills and vocabulary. To address both aims, we followed two cohorts of children aged 4 and 6 as they turned 6 and 8 years old, respectively. At each…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Language Skills, Inferences, Children