TY - GEN
T1 - Change your Mind
T2 - 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Mind, Technology, and Society, CogSci 2015
AU - Allen, Laura K.
AU - McNamara, Danielle S.
AU - McCrudden, Matthew T.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015.All rights reserved.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - We investigated the differential effects of self-explaining a refutational text, compared to thinking aloud or rereading. Undergraduate students (n = 105) read a refutational text about natural selection and were asked to either self-explain, think-aloud, or re-read the text. Then they completed a posttest that assessed general knowledge of natural selection. Students who self-explained the refutational text subsequently outperformed their peers on a test of their knowledge of natural selection. Additionally, the results suggest that both instructional and performance differences were significantly linked to the degree of causal cohesion present within students' natural language responses to the text (i.e., self-explanations and think-alouds).
AB - We investigated the differential effects of self-explaining a refutational text, compared to thinking aloud or rereading. Undergraduate students (n = 105) read a refutational text about natural selection and were asked to either self-explain, think-aloud, or re-read the text. Then they completed a posttest that assessed general knowledge of natural selection. Students who self-explained the refutational text subsequently outperformed their peers on a test of their knowledge of natural selection. Additionally, the results suggest that both instructional and performance differences were significantly linked to the degree of causal cohesion present within students' natural language responses to the text (i.e., self-explanations and think-alouds).
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85139497097
T3 - Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015
SP - 78
EP - 83
BT - Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015
A2 - Noelle, David C.
A2 - Dale, Rick
A2 - Warlaumont, Anne
A2 - Yoshimi, Jeff
A2 - Matlock, Teenie
A2 - Jennings, Carolyn D.
A2 - Maglio, Paul P.
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
Y2 - 23 July 2015 through 25 July 2015
ER -