ERIC Number: EJ1035537
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Sep
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-0734-2829
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Development of the Text-Learning Strategies Inventory: Assessing and Profiling Learning from Texts in Fifth and Sixth Grade
Merchie, Emmelien; Van Keer, Hilde; Vandevelde, Sabrina
Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, v32 n6 p533-547 Sep 2014
Independently learning from informative texts becomes increasingly important from the age of 11. Little information is available, however, on (a) how and to what extent late elementary education students already apply specific text-learning strategies, and (b) whether different learner profiles can already be distinguished. In this study, a 37-item Text-Learning Strategies Inventory (TLSI) was developed and validated by means of exploratory (Sample 1; 896 students) and confirmatory factor analysis (Sample 2; 644 students). The TLSI contains nine subscales reflecting overt, covert, surface- and deep-level cognitive and metacognitive text-learning strategies. Based on these subscales, four learner profiles (i.e., integrated strategy users, information organizers, mental learners, and memorizers) were identified and validated by means of hierarchical and k-means cluster analysis and study traces. No differences in text free recall score between profiles were found. More girls were profiled as integrated strategy users, whereas more boys were identified as mental learners or memorizers.
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Grade 5, Grade 6, Profiles, Cognitive Style, Program Validation, Program Development, Test Construction, Elementary Education, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Recall (Psychology), Models, Gender Differences, Learning Activities, Prior Learning, Factor Analysis, Multivariate Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Goodness of Fit, Textbook Content, Foreign Countries, Item Analysis
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Grade 5; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools; Elementary Education; Grade 6
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Belgium
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