ERIC Number: EJ933560
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Aug
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-1556-1623
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Measuring Strategic Processing when Students Read Multiple Texts
Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I.
Metacognition and Learning, v6 n2 p111-130 Aug 2011
This study explored the dimensionality of multiple-text comprehension strategies in a sample of 216 Norwegian education undergraduates who read seven separate texts on a science topic and immediately afterwards responded to a self-report inventory focusing on strategic multiple-text processing in that specific task context. Two dimensions were identified through factor analysis: one concerning the accumulation of pieces of information from the different texts and one concerning cross-text elaboration. In a subsample of 71 students who were also administered measures of intratextual and intertextual comprehension after responding to the strategy inventory, hierarchical multiple regression analysis indicated that self-reported accumulation of information and cross-text elaboration explained variance in intertextual comprehension even after variance associated with prior knowledge had been removed. (Contains 5 tables and 1 footnote.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Science Materials, Reading Strategies, Prior Learning, Multiple Regression Analysis, Factor Analysis, Undergraduate Students, Psychometrics, Measurement Techniques, Measurement, Learning Strategies, Learning Processes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Norway
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