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Facilitating Textual Integration with Macro-Structure Focusing Tasks
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Britt, M. Anne; Sommer, Jodie – Reading Psychology an international quarterly, 2004
Students are often asked to integrate information derived from reading multiple documents into a consistent story or model. Based on models of comprehending individual text, we predict that the structure and accessibility of earlier texts should influence one's ability to integrate a new text with previously learned material. In two experiments,…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension, Textbooks, Cognitive Processes
Distance Learners' Interaction with Text while Studying.
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Marland, Percy; And Others – Distance Education, 1990
Describes study that examined how Australian distance education students use and learn from textual materials. Text processing strategies and rates of progress are examined; textual features including study guides, table of contents, cross-referencing, and visual aids are considered; and recommendations for improving learning from textual…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Learning Processes
An Analysis of Readability Levels of Contemporary Textbooks That Employ a Hybrid Approach to the Basic Communication Course.
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Schneider, David E. – Communication Education, 1991
Reports the means, standard deviations, and relevant statistics on an examination of the readability of 24 contemporary textbooks that employ a hybrid approach to the basic speech communication course. Discusses some strategies for developing reading skills. (KEH)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Skills
Accuracy of Learnability Judgments for Instructional Texts.
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Britton, Bruce K.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991
The accuracy of 210 college undergraduates' judgments of the relative learnability of original (Army training manuals) and rewritten (war or cultural histories) versions of 20 pairs of texts of known difficulty was studied. Students were 95 percent accurate in their judgments of learnability. Implications for college textbook selection are…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Evaluative Thinking, Evaluators, Guides
Russian Physics Education--How Good Is It?
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Wallach, David L. – Physics Teacher, 1989
Describes the Soviet educational system and physics textbooks and compares them to their American counterparts. Seventeen references are listed. (YP)
Descriptors: College Science, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Physics
Functional Approaches to Written Text: Classroom Applications.
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Miller, Tom, Ed. – 1997
Noting that little in language can be understood without taking into consideration the wider picture of communicative purpose, content, context, and audience, this book address practical uses of various approaches to discourse analysis. Several assumptions run through the chapters: knowledge is socially constructed; the manner in which language…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Grammar
Hypermedia and Higher Education.
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Lemke, Jay L. – Interpersonal Computing and Technology Journal, 1993
Discusses changes in higher education that are resulting from the use of hypermedia. Topics addressed include the structure of traditional texts; a distributed model for academic communication; independent learning as a model for higher education; skills for hypermedia literacy; database searching; information retrieval; authoring skills; design…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Databases, Educational Change, Futures (of Society)