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Wiley, Jennifer; Jaeger, Allison J.; Taylor, Andrew R.; Griffin, Thomas D. – Grantee Submission, 2018
The main goal of the present research was to test whether the presence of analogies would affect the relative accuracy of metacognitive judgments about learning from expository science texts, and whether any effect would depend on the type of cues that readers used as the basis for their judgments of comprehension. In a series of experiments,…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Accuracy
Wiley, Jennifer; Sarmento, David; Griffin, Thomas D.; Hinze, Scott R. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
Graphics presented alongside expository science texts can have a number of positive effects for instruction, including facilitating engagement, arousing interest, and improving understanding. However, because students harbor expectations about which contexts are likely to support better understanding, the mere presence of graphics also has the…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Biology, Expectation, Science Instruction