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Open AccessEffects of green and urban environment exposure during classroom breaks in a video-based setting
Natural environments are beneficial for cognitive functioning and affect. Appraisals of such benefits can lead to the development of pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors in the long run. This study aimed ...
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Open AccessLearning across media in a second language
The present study investigated the impact of the medium on learning in L2. Specifically, learning performances from L2 material were compared across three media: text, video, and subtitled video. The participa...
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Open AccessPrecursors of reading text comprehension from paper and screen in first graders: a longitudinal study
Research on text comprehension in relation to the reading medium (paper or screen) has mainly involved undergraduate or high school students. To advance current knowledge on the effects of reading medium, this...
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Open AccessEffects of negative emotional valence on readers’ text processing and memory for text: an eye-tracking study
Comprehension of stories requires readers to take the perspective of the story characters and imagine or feel their cognitive and affective states. The study investigated how variations in emotional valence wi...
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Open AccessPsychological Benefits of Attending Forest School for Preschool Children: a Systematic Review
Forest school is a form of outdoor learning that takes children into regular and repeated learning experiences in natural settings. Being based on a comprehensive experience with nature, it is assumed to be be...
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Open AccessDo medium and Context Matter when learning from multiple complementary Digital texts and videos?
Students more than ever learn from online sources, such as digital texts or videos. Little research has compared processes and outcomes across these two mediums. Using a between-participants experimental desig...
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Open AccessThe Role of Individual Differences in Sourcing: a Systematic Review
This article reviews how individual differences have been conceptualized and researched within the area of multiple document literacy, in particular the extent to which proposed relationships between individua...
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Open AccessShort-Term Exposure to Nature and Benefits for Students’ Cognitive Performance: a Review
There is growing interest recently in the outdoor environment surrounding schools where students spent time during breaks, in-school activities, and after-school programs. Several reviews have examined the imp...
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Promoting Web-Source Evaluation and Comprehension of Conflicting Online Documents: Effects of Classroom Interventions
This study examines the effectiveness of two short-term instructional interventions on the evaluation of digital sources in the classroom context. One hundred sixty-one 8th graders were involved in one of three c...
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Inhibition and Conceptual Learning in Science: a Review of Studies
Recent research about the learning of science has suggested that misconceptions are not replaced by scientific conceptions and extinguished once conceptual change has occurred. Rather, misconceptions still exi...
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Effects of critical thinking on multiple-document comprehension
The purpose of this study was to test the relationships between critical thinking, prior topic knowledge and beliefs, and multiple-document comprehension through a path analysis approach. The participants were...
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The Role of Inhibition in Conceptual Learning from Refutation and Standard Expository Texts
Text is the primary tool to learn disciplinary knowledge in school. Text-based learning is shaped by a complex interplay between the text and reader characteristics. This study examined the role of text struct...
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Simplifying informational text structure for struggling readers
Direct instruction of reading strategies, such as the ‘structure strategy’, is demonstrated to be effective for the development of more mature and skilled reading processes in struggling readers. This instruct...
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Self-generated Drawing: A Help or Hindrance to Learning from Animation?
The considerable potential of animations to aid learning about dynamic systems too often remains unfulfilled when the targeted subject matter is complex and unfamiliar. Various approaches designed to support l...
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Integrative processing of verbal and graphical information during re-reading predicts learning from illustrated text: an eye-movement study
Printed or digital textbooks contain texts accompanied by various kinds of visualisation. Successful comprehension of these materials requires integrating verbal and graphical information. This study investiga...
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Reading information about a scientific phenomenon on webpages varying for reliability: an eye-movement analysis
Students search the Web frequently for many purposes, one of which is to search information for academic assignments. Given the huge amount of easily accessible online information, they are required to develop...
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FROM COVERT PROCESSES TO OVERT OUTCOMES OF REFUTATION TEXT READING: THE INTERPLAY OF SCIENCE TEXT STRUCTURE AND WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY THROUGH EYE FIXATIONS
This study extends current research on the refutation text effect by investigating it in learners with different levels of working memory capacity. The purpose is to outline the link between online processes (...
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Besides knowledge: a cross-sectional study on the relations between epistemic beliefs, achievement goals, self-beliefs, and achievement in science
This study examines the contribution of learner cognitive and motivational characteristics to achievement in science at three grade levels. Specifically, the relations between domain-specific epistemic beliefs...
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Uncovering the effect of text structure in learning from a science text: An eye-tracking study
This study examined whether reading a refutational or non-refutational text would induce different cognitive processing, as revealed by eye-movement analyses. Unlike a standard expository text, a refutational ...
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Searching the Web to learn about a controversial topic: are students epistemically active?
Students are making an increased use of the Web as a source for solving information problems for academic assignments. To extend current research about search behavior during navigation on the Web, this study ...
