Main Points in an Instructional Text, as Identified by Students and by Their Teachers.

Schellings, Gonny L. M.; Van Hout-Wolters, Bernadette H. A. M.

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ERIC Number: EJ511634

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Publication Date: 1995

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Main Points in an Instructional Text, as Identified by Students and by Their Teachers.

Schellings, Gonny L. M.; Van Hout-Wolters, Bernadette H. A. M.

Reading Research Quarterly, v30 n4 p742-56 Oct-Dec 1995

Compares secondary school students' underlining of main points in a biology text to their teachers' underlinings of main points. Finds large variations in the number of main points underlined by the students and even by the teachers, and large variations in the agreement between students and their teachers. Suggests that educational variables are important in main point identification. (RS)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Secondary Education

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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