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Direct linkWesley Morris; Scott Crossley; Langdon Holmes; Chaohua Ou; Danielle McNamara; Mihai Dascalu – Grantee Submission, 2023
As intelligent textbooks become more ubiquitous in classrooms and educational settings, the need arises to automatically provide formative feedback to written responses provided by students in response to readings. This study develops models to automatically provide feedback to student summaries written at the end of intelligent textbook sections.…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Electronic Publishing, Feedback (Response), Formative Evaluation
Talwar, Amani; Greenberg, Daphne; Li, Hongli – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
A major challenge in research with struggling adult readers is their heterogeneity in reading-related competencies and demographic characteristics. The purpose of this investigation was to identify unique profiles of skill sets among struggling adult readers and explore informative demographic differences between profiles. Using latent class…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Adults, Reading Skills, Individual Characteristics
Talwar, Amani; Greenberg, Daphne; Li, Hongli – Grantee Submission, 2020
A major challenge in research with struggling adult readers is their heterogeneity in reading-related competencies and demographic characteristics. The purpose of this investigation was to identify unique profiles of skill sets among struggling adult readers and explore informative demographic differences between profiles. Using latent class…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Adults, Reading Skills, Individual Characteristics
Durgunoglu, Aydin Yücesan; Bigelow, Martha – Language Teaching, 2017
The field of language teaching and learning is in dire need of replications of vocabulary and comprehension research with diverse populations of learners. We propose for replication one large-scale vocabulary intervention carried out successfully in a middle-school with monolingual and multilingual students. This study was carried out several…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods
Josephs, Nikki L.; Jolivette, Kristine – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2016
This study examined the effects of peer-mediated oral reading fluency instruction and narrative texts on the reading fluency and comprehension skills of adolescent struggling readers in an alternative high school setting over a period of 10 weeks. The results of this study indicate that peer-mediated repeated reading appears to be the most…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Skills, Reading
Niaz, Mansoor – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2011
The objective of this study was to facilitate inservice high school and university teachers' understanding of the difference between the terms "hypothesis" and "prediction." The context for understanding these terms was Columbus's discovery of America (as in the previous study). Control group teachers (N = 94) were evaluated before the discussion…
Descriptors: Prediction, Secondary School Teachers, College Faculty, Inservice Teacher Education
Coiro, Julie – Educational Forum, 2012
Research in four areas has the potential to dramatically improve how practitioners address the challenges of integrating digital texts and tasks into their literacy curriculum. Advances in defining and measuring key components of online reading comprehension are rapidly emerging. In addition, instructional models, such as Internet reciprocal…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Comprehension, Reciprocal Teaching, Educational Research
Rodríguez Cervantes, Carmen A.; Roux Rodriguez, Ruth – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2012
When language learners do not know how to say a word in English, they can communicate effectively by using their hands, imitating sounds, inventing new words, or describing what they mean. These ways of communicating are communication strategies (CSs). EFL teachers are not always aware of the importance of teaching communication strategies to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Communication Strategies, Nonverbal Communication
Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2017, taking place in Budapest, Hungary, from 29 of April to 1 of May, 2017. Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Anxiety, Cognitive Restructuring, Outcomes of Treatment
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Keshavarz, Mohammad Hossein; Atai, Mahmoud Reza; Ahmadi, Hossein – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2007
This study investigated the effects of linguistic simplification and content schemata on reading comprehension and recall. The participants, 240 Iranian male students of English as a foreign language (EFL), were divided into 4 homogeneous groups, each consisting of 60 participants (30 with high proficiency and 30 with low proficiency). To elicit…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Schemata (Cognition), Linguistics, Reading Comprehension
