Teaching self-regulation strategies via an intelligent tutoring system (TuinLECweb): Effects for low-skilled comprehenders

Selection Task and Computer-Based Feedback to Improve the Searching Process in Task-Oriented Reading Situations

Adaptive feedback has showed to be effective to enhance strategic reading behaviors and performance in task-oriented reading situations, but it is difficult to be implemented in classroom environments. Computer-based systems allow overcoming these challenges. We conducted an experiment in which secondary-school students read two texts, answered comprehension questions and selected relevant text information while receiving automatic feedback about selection accuracy and performance. Two experimental conditions were designed to assess the effects of feedback and selection attempts. Then, students perform a transfer task without any of these elements. We found that one-attempt and two-attempt …

Impact of text availability and question format on reading comprehension processes

Abstract We conducted two experiments to analyze how text availability and question format affect readers’ processes and performance on measures of expository text reading comprehension. Junior high school students read expository texts and answered both multiple choice and open-ended questions on a computer that recorded reading times and readers’ actions with Read&Answer software. The results showed that readers reread prior text segments during initial reading of the text more often when they knew that the text would be unavailable when answering questions than when they knew that the text would be available. In addition, readers made more search decisions in the text- available conditio…

Evaluar la comprensión de textos con el libro delante, ¿sí o no? El papel de los procesos cognitivos y metacognitivos

Permitir a los estudiantes utilizar los textos al responder preguntas de comprensión es una decisión que deben tomar los docentes. Aunque tener acceso a los textos puede influir positivamente en el rendimiento, estos efectos disminuyen con el tiempo. Investigaciones recientes demuestran que la disponibilidad de los textos interactúa con el formato y la dificultad de las tareas asignadas, debido probablemente a las operaciones mentales involucradas. Disponer de los textos requiere de procesos de monitorización y autorregulación específicos relacionados con el manejo de información relevante para las preguntas. Sin embargo, suprimir el acceso demanda principalmente procesos cognitivos de comp…