Do the students check the internal consistency of scientific texts or do they keep the first information they read?

This paper descrie the prepatarion and application of an instrument designed to assess the strategies students use to control comprehension when they read a short scientific text. It was applied to two groups of students from different school levels. A contradiction was introduced in the text genera...

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Main Authors: Carla I. Maturano, Claudia A. Mazzitelli, Ascención Macías
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2003-01-01
Series:Investigações em Ensino de Ciências
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Online Access:http://www.if.ufrgs.br/ienci/artigos/Artigo_ID98/v8_n1_a2003.pdf