Search Results - "Braasch, Jason L G"
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Teaching Fourth and Fifth Graders to Evaluate Information Sources During Text Comprehension
Published in Cognition and instruction (01-04-2013)“…In two experiments, we examined fourth and fifth graders' comprehension of the source of information in texts presenting controversial issues. In Experiment 1,…”
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The Discrepancy-Induced Source Comprehension (D-ISC) Model: Basic Assumptions and Preliminary Evidence
Published in Educational psychologist (03-07-2017)“…Despite the importance of source attention and evaluation for learning from texts, little is known about the particular conditions that encourage sourcing…”
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Optimizing Conditions for Learning: Situating Refutations in Epistemic Cognition
Published in The Journal of experimental education (02-04-2016)“…A refutation text is designed to promote conceptual change by explicitly acknowledging commonly held misconceptions about a topic, directly refuting them, and…”
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Processing inaccurate information: Theoretical and applied perspectives from cognitive science and the educational sciences
Published 2014“…Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire from other people, from books, or from the media is wrong…”
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Readers’ use of source information in text comprehension
Published in Memory & cognition (01-04-2012)“…In two experiments, we examined the role of discrepancy on readers’ text processing of and memory for the sources of brief news reports. Each story included…”
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The Influences of Text and Reader Characteristics on Learning From Refutations in Science Texts
Published in Journal of educational psychology (01-08-2013)“…Three experiments examined conceptual change from reading refutational texts and how such learning interacted with prior knowledge organization. Prior to…”
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Working toward a theoretical model for source comprehension in everyday discourse
Published in Discourse processes (03-07-2021)“…Comprehension substantially benefits from attending to, thinking about, and mentally representing the sources of any presented information. Such processes…”
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Comprehending and Learning From Internet Sources: Processing Patterns of Better and Poorer Learners
Published in Reading research quarterly (01-10-2012)“…Readers increasingly attempt to understand and learn from information sources they find on the Internet. Doing so highlights the crucial role that evaluative…”
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Comprehending Multiple Controversial Texts about Childhood Vaccinations: Topic Beliefs and Integration Instructions
Published in Reading psychology (19-05-2023)“…This study examined the extent to which prior beliefs and reading instructions impacted elements of a reader's mental representation of multiple texts. College…”
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Contextual factors that affect adolescents' detection of and memory for conflicts across multiple texts
Published in Journal of research in reading (01-05-2021)“…Background School‐aged children are increasingly engaging with multiple conflicting texts to understand complex societal issues; however, empirical research…”
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Beliefs about the Malleability of Working Memory Guide College Students' Evaluations of Belief-Inconsistent and Belief-Consistent Journal Articles
Published in Reading psychology (18-08-2023)“…One-hundred and twenty-two undergraduates completed a survey assessing beliefs that WM is a stable trait, or that it is quality that can be improved with skill…”
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Promoting secondary school students’ evaluation of source features of multiple documents
Published in Contemporary educational psychology (01-07-2013)“…•An intervention targeted secondary school students’ source evaluation strategies.•This resulted in the inclusion of more concepts from reliable…”
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The Contributions of Childhood Vaccination Misconceptions to the Evaluation and Sharing of Information from Multiple Internet Texts
Published in Reading psychology (01-01-2021)“…The current work was conducted to better understand the influences of source presence and individual differences on evaluating and sharing information from…”
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Adolescents' Developing Sensitivity to Orthographic and Semantic Cues During Visual Search for Words
Published in Frontiers in psychology (26-03-2019)“…Two eye-tracking experiments were conducted to assess the influence of words either looking like the target word (orthographic distractors) or semantically…”
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Reader's memory for information sources in simple news stories: Effects of text and task features
Published in Journal of cognitive psychology (Hove, England) (17-02-2014)“…Two experiments examined readers' memory for information sources in short news stories. Based on current theories of text comprehension, we assumed that…”
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The Role of Prior Knowledge in Learning From Analogies in Science Texts
Published in Discourse processes (01-01-2010)“…Two experiments examined whether inconsistent effects of analogies in promoting new content learning from text are related to prior knowledge of the analogy…”
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Application Exercises Improve Transfer of Statistical Knowledge in Real-World Situations
Published in Teaching of Psychology (01-07-2013)“…The present research investigated whether real-world application exercises promoted students’ abilities to spontaneously transfer statistical knowledge and to…”
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Writing Cover Letters That Address Instructor Feedback Improves Final Papers in a Research Methods Course
Published in Teaching of psychology (01-01-2015)“…We examined how writing cover letters to the instructor influenced final papers in research methods courses. After receiving instructor feedback on drafts of…”
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Potential contributions of intellectual humility when reading on the Internet
Published in The journal of positive psychology (04-03-2023)“…This article presents a theoretical framework that describes how different facets of Intellectual Humility may function during authentic, everyday reading…”
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Looking for a word or for its meaning? The impact of induction tasks on adolescents' visual search for verbal material
Published in Memory & cognition (01-10-2023)“…An eye-tracking experiment was conducted to examine whether the pre-activation of different word-processing pathways by means of semantic versus perceptual…”
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