Are Good Texts Always Better? Interactions of Text Coherence, Background Knowledge, and Levels of Understanding in Learning From Text

S. McNamara, Danielle; Kintsch, Eileen; Butler Songer, Nancy; Kintsch, Walter

doi:10.1207/s1532690xci1401_1

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Are Good Texts Always Better? Interactions of Text Coherence, Background Knowledge, and Levels of Understanding in Learning From Text

Published in Cognition and Instruction • Mar 1, 1996

Authors:

Danielle S. McNamara

Eileen Kintsch

Nancy Butler Songer

Abstract

Two experiments, theoretically motivated by the construction-integration model of text comprehension (W. Kintsch, 1988), investigated the role of text coherence in the comprehension of science texts. In Experiment 1, junior high school students' comprehension of one of three versions of a biology te...

Subject

Comprehension

Reading comprehension

Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy)

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