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Download full textBrown, Ann L.; Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan – 1985
The first part of this report reviews an extensive series of studies concerned with the reciprocal teaching of comprehension fostering and monitoring strategies--an instructional method in which an adult teacher and a group of students take turns leading a dialogue aimed at revealing the meaning of the text. The studies reviewed indicate that…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities
Thieman, Thomas J.; Brown, Ann L. – 1977
Recent studies have offered support for a constructive view of sentence memory in children, based on their preference in recognition errors for true inferences, which can be drawn from input sentences, over false inferences. However, with the materials used in these studies, this preference may reflect responding either on the basis of semantic or…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Memory, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
Brown, Ann L.; Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan – 1982
Using a definition of metacognition that distinguishes between knowledge about cognition and regulation of cognition, this paper discusses the role of metacognition in the identification and categorizing of students with learning problems. Following this discussion, the paper describes three types of cognitive skills training studies--blind,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Metacognition
Baker, Linda; Brown, Ann L. – 1980
The importance of metacognition to the process of critical reading is discussed in this report. Specifically, the report covers two areas of research: (1) reading for meaning, which involves the metacognitive activity of comprehension monitoring, and (2) reading for remembering, which includes identifying important ideas, testing one's mastery of…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Elementary Education, Metacognition
Brown, Ann L.; And Others – 1982
Intended as a chapter in "Carmichael's Manual of Child Psychology," this paper provides an overview and interpretation of the work already completed on children's learning, remembering, and understanding with a major concentration on academic cognition. The first part of the paper provides a brief overview of the principal trends of the 1970s and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Cognitive Development, Comprehension
Brown, Ann L.; Smiley, Sandra S. – 1977
The strategies of children and college students were examined as they attempted to study texts. College students, under various intentional learning instructions, displayed a repetitive diagnostic pattern. Following extended study they improved recall of important, but not unimportant, elements of texts. Eleventh and twelfth graders conformed to…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Intermediate Grades, Learning Processes
Brown, Ann L.; And Others – 1977
Two experiments concerned with memory and comprehension of prose passages were conducted with children from second through seventh grade. In both experiments the major variable was the provision of appropriate frameworks for comprehending ambiguous sections of the passages. In the initial experiment, recognition of theme-congruent and…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Child Development, Comprehension, Context Clues
Peer reviewedPalincsar, Annemarie Sullivan; Brown, Ann L. – Reading Teacher, 1986
Describes the uses and benefits of reciprocal teaching, a strategy that promotes both comprehension of text and comprehension monitoring. (HOD)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Strategies, Questioning Techniques
Brown, Ann L.; And Others – 1983
A study examined the ability of subjects of varying ages to write summaries of very familiar material. In particular, it explored the subjects' planning activities both prior to and during the summarization task. The subjects, 15 fifth, 16 seventh, and 15 eleventh grade students and 11 college students, were given two stories to study for a week.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education
Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan; Brown, Ann L. – 1983
Three studies were conducted to test the effectiveness of reciprocal teaching as a means of instructing seventh grade poor readers about activities they could use to increase comprehension and to ascertain that their comprehension was proceeding smoothly (comprehension monitoring). Reciprocal teaching involves having teacher and students take…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Grade 7
Brown, Ann L.; Palincsar, Annemarie S. – 1986
Drawing upon Piagetian and Vygotskian developmental theories, philosophical examinations of the nature of argument and explanation, analyses of classroom and Socratic dialogues, and cooperative classroom structures, this paper examines how cooperative learning can influence individual knowledge acquisition. The paper first reviews some of the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Educational Philosophy, Grade 1, Group Activities
