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Download full textJeanne Kriek; Ashenafi Legesse – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
Students often face difficulties to understand Archimedes' principle and to apply it in everyday life. It is therefore necessary to explore a different teaching approach that addresses students' visual and auditory senses in a unique manner. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of using multiple representations on undergraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Physics, Teaching Methods
Direct linkAndrea Krieg – Teaching Sociology, 2024
There is general agreement among sociologists that teaching social structure is a core component of a sociological curriculum. Despite this agreement, there are few guides for instructors on how to teach this key concept. Using the sociological literacy framework, this research examines the most popular undergraduate Introduction to Sociology…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Sociology, Social Structure, Textbook Content
Marcus C. G. Friedrich; Selina Gajewski; Katja Hagenberg; Christine Wenz; Elke Heise – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
Gender-fair language makes women and people of other genders, their interests, and achievements more visible. However, critics argue that gender-fair language impairs the comprehensibility and aesthetic appeal of texts. This study tests these assumptions specifically concerning the gender asterisk, a form of gender-fair language that makes people…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sex Fairness, Comprehension, Aesthetics
Takayuki Nishihara – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
This study explored the diverse responses of Japanese university-level learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) to lexically easy short poems. These participants had attained a high level of English proficiency and were able to grasp the literal meaning of the poems. The investigation employed confidence level and reading time as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Krista Merry; Pete Bettinger; Taeyoon Lee – Journal of Extension, 2024
Online learning has become an important advance in education in the last decade. We developed an online learning system related to land and tree measurements. University students were given pre- and postexposure surveys for two courses offered within the online system. Surveys were designed to assess whether the knowledge level and confidence of…
Descriptors: College Students, Forestry, Electronic Learning, Outcomes of Education
Beverly FitzPatrick; Mike Chong; James Tuff; Sana Jamil; Khalid Al Hariri; Taylor Stocks – Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 2024
Purpose: Many PhD students have strong reading comprehension, but some struggle with how to read critically. The purpose of this study is to understand what reading looks like for PhD students, what they are doing when they read scholarly texts and how they bring these texts to life in meaningful ways. Design/methodology/approach: The authors…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Critical Reading, Reading Comprehension, Participatory Research
Khajavy, Gholam Hassan; Aghaee, Elham – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2023
Research has indicated the importance of vocabulary knowledge and background knowledge in second/foreign language (L2) listening comprehension. However, previous studies treated these two factors separately, and no study has examined the simultaneous contribution of these two factors to L2 listening comprehension. Therefore, the aim of this study…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension
Yang, Yu-Fen; Kuo, Nai-Cheng – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
Few studies on higher education focus on how English as a Foreign Language (EFL) college students may enhance their global literacy through cross-cultural communication. This mixed methods research reports on a blended learning program with cross-cultural communication to foster EFL college students' global literacy. A sample of 97 EFL college…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, English (Second Language), College Students, Second Language Learning
Greene, Nathaniel R.; Naveh-Benjamin, Moshe – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Assessing the time course under which underlying memory representations can be formed is an important question for understanding memory. Several studies assessing item memory have shown that gist representations of items are laid out more rapidly than verbatim representations. However, for associations among items/components, which form the core…
Descriptors: Memory, Comprehension, Cognitive Processes, Visual Discrimination
Francesca Crudele; Juliana E. Raffaghelli – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2023
Aim/Purpose: In undergraduate training, helping students improve argumentative text comprehension (CoT) by identifying the elements of an argumentative text and critical thinking (CT) by reconstructing the meaning of the text and constructing their own reflections is relevant. Argumentative skills are essential on both the personal and…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Persuasive Discourse
Jennifer Wiley; Tricia A. Guerrero; Lena Hildenbrand; Thomas D. Griffin – Grantee Submission, 2023
Engaging in explanation while studying expository science texts can improve comprehension. The present study varied the timing of explanation activities and restudy opportunities before taking final comprehension tests on a set of 6 topics studied as part of a course in Introduction to Psychology. When students had the opportunity to restudy in…
Descriptors: Science Education, Reading Comprehension, Introductory Courses, Psychology
Noam Siegelman; Irina Elgort; Marc Brysbaert; Niket Agrawal; Simona Amenta; Jasmina Arsenijevic Mijalkovic; Christine S. Chang; Daria Chernova; Fabienne Chetail; A. J. Benjamin Clarke; Alain Content; Davide Crepaldi; Nastag Davaabold; Shurentsetseg Delgersuren; Avital Deutsch; Veronika Dibrova; Denis Drieghe; Dušica Filipovic Ðurdevic; Brittany Finch; Ram Frost; Carolina A. Gattei; Esther Geva; Aline Godfroid; Lindsay Griener; Esteban Hernández-Rivera; Anastasia Ivanenko; Juhani Järvikivi; Lea Kawaletz; Anurag Khare; Jun Ren Lee; Charlotte E. Lee; Christina Manouilidou; Marco Marelli; Timur Mashanlo; Ksenija Mišic; Koji Miwa; Pauline Palma; Ingo Plag; Zoya Rezanova; Enkhzaya Riimed; Jay Rueckl; Sascha Schroeder; Irina A. Sekerina; Diego E. Shalom; Natalia Slioussar; Neža Marija Slosar; Vanessa Taler; Kim Thériault; Debra Titone; Odonchimeg Tumee; Ross van de Wetering; Ark Verma; Anna Fiona Weiss; Denise Hsien Wu; Victor Kuperman – Language Learning, 2024
This article presents the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) project that offers data on English reading and listening comprehension from 7,338 university-level advanced learners and native speakers of English representing 19 countries. The database also includes estimates of reading rate and seven component skills of English, including vocabulary,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Sylvia M. Savvidou; Irene-Anna Diakidoy; Lucia Mason – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
The present study examined how argument type (science based vs. personal case based), belief consistency (belief consistent vs. inconsistent) and reading goals (read to evaluate vs. read to learn) influence comprehension and trustworthiness evaluations for claim-conflicting multiple texts. Undergraduates read four conflicting texts about the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Persuasive Discourse, Beliefs
Allison J. Jaeger; Logan Fiorella – Metacognition and Learning, 2024
Prior research suggests most students do not glean valid cues from provided visuals, resulting in reduced metacomprehension accuracy. Across 4 experiments, we explored how the presence of instructional visuals affects students' metacomprehension accuracy and cue-use for different types of metacognitive judgments. Undergraduates read texts on…
Descriptors: Cues, Visual Stimuli, Comprehension, Metacognition
Michelle L. Rizzella; Edward J. O'Brien – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
We examined the impact of prospective information on the processing of information occurring within the present timeline of narrative stories. Participants read target sentences that were consistent with events occurring within a protagonist's present timeline but inconsistent with events in the protagonist's future. When prospective information…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Information Processing, Sentences, Memory
