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Talwar, Amani; Greenberg, Daphne; Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Li, Hongli – Grantee Submission, 2020
The Simple View of Reading (SVR), which posits that reading comprehension is the product of decoding and linguistic comprehension, has been studied extensively with school-age readers. However, little is known about the intricacies of the SVR for adults who struggle with reading. The current study addresses notable gaps in this literature,…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Adults, Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading)
Vaunam P. Venkadasalam; Nicole E. Larsen; Patricia A. Ganea – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Evaluating evidence and restructuring beliefs based on anomalous evidence are fundamental aspects of scientific reasoning. These skills can be challenging for both children and adults, especially in domains where they possess inaccurate prior beliefs that can interfere with the acquisition of correct scientific information (e.g., heavier objects…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Concept Formation, Cognitive Development
Pamela Filiatrault-Veilleux; Chantal Desmarais; Caroline Bouchard; Breanne Esau; Audette Sylvestre – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Using a longitudinal design, this study aimed to describe inferential comprehension abilities of neglected French-speaking preschool children from 42 to 66 months of age in comparison to non-neglected peers, to examine the association with receptive vocabulary, and to determine whether rates of change in inferential abilities over time…
Descriptors: French, Inferences, Comprehension, Child Neglect
Kim McDonough; Chen Liu; Pavel Trofimovich – ELT Journal, 2023
To contribute to existing research that describes how L2 speakers avoid misunderstanding during conversation, the current study examines the strategies used by university students in Canada. The students (N = 104) were audio-recorded while carrying out two communicative tasks in pairs: exchanging personal experiences about moving to Canada, and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Interpersonal Communication, Comprehension, College Students
Jeffrey Fila – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 started a crisis in higher education worldwide, as postsecondary institutions struggled to quickly manage many complex and novel challenges at once to maintain operations. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological research method, the lived experience of 15 administrators in the Ontario college system…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Higher Education, College Administration
Saryazdi, Raheleh; Chambers, Craig G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
In face-to-face interaction, speakers spontaneously produce manual gestures that can facilitate listeners' comprehension of spoken language. The present study explores the factors affecting the uptake and influence of gesture cues in situations where a speaker is referring to objects visible to the listener. In this context, the listener's…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Cues, Interaction, Listening
Merli Tamtik – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2024
The emergence of agreements between private pathway colleges and public English-medium institutions represents a new development in internationalization that further challenges the public higher education landscape. While these institutional arrangements are controversial and often criticized, university senior administrators have been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comprehension, College Administration, Public Colleges
Lodewyk, Ken R.; Robertson, Scott – Physical Educator, 2022
The primary aim of this quasi-experimental study was to investigate differences in enjoyment and need for cognition between regular physical education and a Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) unit by level (higher or lower) of intention to enroll in physical education. A sample of 71 ninth-grade physical education students completed a survey…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Physical Education, Student Participation
Mirenda, Pat; Colozzo, Paola; Smith, Veronica; Kroc, Ed; Kalynchuk, Karen; Rogers, Sally J.; Ungar, Wendy J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
A randomized feasibility trial of a parent coaching (PC) intervention was conducted across 16 community agencies in a Canadian province. Parents of toddlers with suspected autism were assigned to either a PC group (n = 24) or an enhanced community treatment (ECT) group (n = 25). PC participants received 24 weeks of coaching support from community…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Toddlers, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Jin, Qingna; Kim, Mijung – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Students' difficulties in scientific argumentation have been widely reported in the literature. Researchers argue that these difficulties result mainly from students' lack of understanding of the goals and norms of argumentation. Therefore, designing and implementing appropriate instructional scaffolds to facilitate such essential knowledge of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Persuasive Discourse, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Metacognition
Teacher Metacognition: Teacher as Curriculum Maker with Metacognition at the Centre of the Classroom
Engel, Barbara – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2021
This study examined teacher awareness and teacher use of metacognitive practices in Canadian schools within Manitoba. The literature on teacher metacognition was limited because the majority of the literature centred on student metacognition and there was a call for more research regarding teacher metacognition. Four participants from urban and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Teachers, Knowledge Level
Kalir, Jeremiah Holden; Morales, Esteban; Fleerackers, Alice; Alperin, Juan Pablo – Information and Learning Sciences, 2020
Purpose: Social annotation (SA) is a genre of learning technology that enables the annotation of digital resources for information sharing, social interaction and knowledge production. This study aims to examine the perceived value of SA as contributing to learning in multiple undergraduate courses. Design/methodology/approach: In total, 59…
Descriptors: Documentation, Student Attitudes, Collaborative Writing, Educational Technology
Hossain, M. Alamgir; Menz, Petra M.; Stockie, John M. – PRIMUS, 2022
We present a question bank consisting of over 250 multiple-choice and true--false questions covering a broad range of material typically taught in an introductory undergraduate course in numerical analysis or computational science. The questions are ideal for polling students during lectures by means of a student response system that uses…
Descriptors: Audience Response Systems, Undergraduate Study, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Wallace, Alannah; Hoskyn, Maureen – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: The aim of the study is to design and evaluate the Strategy Awareness and Use Questionnaire to estimate students' awareness and use of strategies that optimize control of attention and/or compensate for stress on an executive system due to environmental and/or neurobiological influences. Participants: One hundred and forty-eight…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Level, Executive Function, College Students
Sullivan, Jessica; Bale, Alan; Barner, David – Language Learning and Development, 2018
Recently, researchers interested in the nature and origins of semantic representations have investigated an especially informative case study: The acquisition of the word "most"--a quantifier which by all accounts demands a sophisticated second-order logic, and which therefore poses an interesting challenge to theories of language…
Descriptors: Semantics, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Comprehension