Engaging Text: Assessing Paraphrase and Understanding.

Uemlianin, Ivan A.

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Publication Date: 2000

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Engaging Text: Assessing Paraphrase and Understanding.

Uemlianin, Ivan A.

Studies in Higher Education, v25 n3 p347-58 Oct 2000

Studied students' ability to paraphrase a given text. Analysis of responses of 163 undergraduates showed that the paraphrase task was more than trivial and involved more than a simple skill, and that central information was reproduced more relaibly than peripheral information. (SLD)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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