Abstract: In this experimental study with 62 university students, we examined to what extent the hope or hopelessness they experience during reading a text affect their comprehension as well as the magnitude and accuracy of their ...
Cliffhangers as a Profitable Stylistic Device in Reading Promotion? Results of a Randomized Controlled Pilot Study on the Effects of Varying Text Arrangements on Reading Enjoyment and Memory of Text Content of ...
Adaptive Testing of Text Comprehension in Primary School. Development of a CAT-Optimized Item PoolAbstract. The present study describes the construction and calibration of a text comprehension item pool for a computer adaptive test (...
Comprehension of Controversial Scientific Themes: Problems, Underlying Cognititves Processes and Psychological InterventionsAbstract. People interested in publically debated scientific issues are often confronted with multiple texts that provide contrary ...
Reading is search for meaning – and learning to read demands more than mere training of skillsAbstract. Concepts of instruction are based on quite different concepts of learning and of competing explanations of problems. This article shows that ...
Learning From Text and PicturesAbstract. Learning with text and pictures (multimedia) constitutes one of the core areas of research on learning and instruction. Against the backdrop of the multistore model of memory, cognitive theories of multimedia ...
Process-oriented Assessment of Reading Skills in Primary School ChildrenFrom a cognitive perspective, reading skills depend on efficient component processes of reading comprehension on the word, sentence and text level. In this article, we present the ...
The Use of Presented and Learner-Generated Pictures as Aid for Comprehension in Science Text LearningBased on multimedia learning theories this paper investigated the benefits of provided pictures, based on models of self-regulated learning it also ...
The construction of predictive inferences in children and adults during the cognitive processing of audiovisual and auditory textsAbstract. The aim of the two present studies was to investigate in 192 participants aged 6, 8, 10, 13, and 22 years if they ...
Assessing knowledge about reading strategiesAbstract. This paper describes the development and evaluation of an instrument assessing declarative metacognitive knowledge. In particular, this instrument deals with students’ knowledge about the utility and ...
The relationship between spoken and written language in the construction of mental representationAbstract. In learning environments text can be presented auditorily or visually. Therefore the question arises whether listening and reading comprehension ...
Construction of visio-spatial representations during listening and reading comprehensionAbstract. In learning environments, information can be presented as visual or auditory text. However, the question remains unanswered whether there are differences ...
Zusammenfassung. Seit Erfindung der Schrift stellt sich die Frage, inwieweit sich das Hör- und das Leseverstehen voneinander unterscheiden. In der vorliegenden Studie wurde untersucht, ob beim Hör- und Leseverstehen unterschiedliche Lernleistungen erzielt ...
Using Concept Maps Effectively as Structural Supports: The Role of Self-ConstructionIn this study with 46 young adults, we investigated effects of differently structured concept maps for students' comprehension of science texts and for their self-...
Summary: Learning from hypertext requires learners to decide on a selection and order of nodes to be visited and to integrate the contents of different nodes into a coherent situational representation. These demands should be accomplished more easily by ...
Zusammenfassung. Nach dem Modell ITERA (Nerb, Spada & Wahl, 1998; Nerb & Spada, 2001) löst die Lektüre von Zeitungsmeldungen über Umweltschadensfälle kognitive und emotionale Bewertungen aus. Das Modell erlaubt präzise Vorhersagen über Kohärenzeffekte: ...
Processing of person descriptive information as text comprehensionAbstract. In this paper, relations between text comprehension and social cognition are discussed. It is argued that theories and research methods from the domain of text comprehension are ...
Maintaining global coherence during reading. Fisheye views as cognitive toolsAbstract. Graphic organizers, such as tree diagrams or fisheye views, are important instructional tools to improve the comprehension of traditional text or hypertext. Empirical ...
Forming Impressions from Person Descriptions: Effects of Text Coherence on Social Information ProcessingSummary: This paper concerns the comprehension of person descriptions. In two experiments we investigated the influence of syntactical coherence and ...
Situation models and text comprehensionAbstract. Recent theories of text comprehension assume that readers build a representation of the situation described by a text in additon to a representation of the text itself. This level of representation, the ...