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Peer reviewedMikkila-Erdmann, Mirjamaija – Learning and Instruction, 2001
Studied the effect of text design on the comprehension of photosynthesis of 209 Finnish fifth graders who studied a traditional text or a conceptual change text that tried to foster met a conceptual awareness. Children who studied the conceptual change text performed better than the traditional text group. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedLehto, Juhani E.; Scheinin, Patrik; Kupiainen, Sirkku; Hautamaki, Jarkko – Journal of Research in Reading, 2001
Examines the cognitively high-level text processing, or macro-processing, of expository passages. Investigates reading comprehension during the sixth and ninth school years. Finds that girls outperformed boys regardless of the comprehension measure and also finds that performance on both measures, but particularly on hierarchy-rating, correlated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade 6, Grade 9, Intermediate Grades
Julkunen, Kyosti – 1992
A study conducted in Finland investigated the relationships between trait and test anxiety and low and high achievement in 552 sixth- and eighth-graders. Before the final English language test of the spring term, the students responded to a questionnaire concerning worry, tension, test-irrelevant thoughts, physical reactions (e.g., rapid…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
