How do students integrate multiple texts? An investigation of top-down processing

This study describes an in-depth investigation of students’ integration or connection formation across multiple texts. Students were asked to complete two multiple text tasks, differing in the number of texts that they asked students to connect and the variety of cross-textual connections able to be formed. For each task, students were asked to indicate (e.g., highlight) and explain each connection formed. Students’ connection formation was analyzed in a variety of ways (e.g., number of texts connected, types of connections identified). Across two tasks, students were found (a) to form more evidentiary (i.e., linking specific information supporting main ideas) than thematic (i.e., linking main ideas across texts) connections, (b) to identify more similarities than differences, and (c) to form comparatively low-level, rather than high-level connections, with levels of connection formation distinguished according to the degree of specificity, abstraction, and elaboration that these reflected. Implications for further research and instruction are discussed.

This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10212-020-00497-y

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Work Title How do students integrate multiple texts? An investigation of top-down processing
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  1. Alexandra List
  2. Hongcui Du
  3. Hye Yeon Lee
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  1. Multiple texts
  2. Integration
  3. Synthesis
  4. Comprehension
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  1. European Journal of Psychology of Education
Publication Date September 27, 2020
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  1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-020-00497-y
Deposited March 12, 2024

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