Academic Literacy and Study Strategies for Secondary-level and College Readers: A Research Update International Reading Association’s 2007 Annual Convention Toronto, Ontario, Canada May 14, 2007 Co-Sponsored Session College Reading and Learning Association Patricia Mulcahy-Ernt, Ph. D. University of Bridgeport
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Academic Literacy and Study Strategies for Secondary-level and College Readers: A Research UpdateInternational Reading Association’s 2007 Annual ConventionToronto, Ontario, CanadaMay 14, 2007Co-Sponsored Session College Reading and Learning Association
Patricia Mulcahy-Ernt, Ph. D.University of Bridgeport
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Research about Academic Literacies
Flippo, R. F. & Caverly, D. C. (2000). Handbook of college reading and study strategy research. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Kamil, M. L., Mosenthal, P. B., Pearson, P. D., Barr, R. (2000). Handbook of reading research, Volume III. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Flood, J., Lapp, D., Squire, J. R., Jensen, J. (2003). Handbook of research on teaching the English language arts, 2nd edition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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Research about Academic Literacies
• College Teaching• Educational Psychologist• Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy• Journal of College Reading and Learning• Journal of Developmental Education• Journal of Instructional Psychology
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Strategic Studying and Learning
Question 1:
What’s characteristic of “learning?”
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Strategic Studying and Learning
Question 1:
What’s characteristic of “learning?” – Meaningful: Surface versus Deep Learning
(Glaser, 1991; Haggis, 2003)– Long-term versus Short-term Effect– Task Specific (Jenkins, 1979)– Subject Specific– Knowledge Rich (Alexander, 1996)
What works? What doesn’t?
Myths, lies, and misconceptions…
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Strategic Study Reading and Learning
How a Learner Processes Information (Mayer, 1988)
• The focus is on the learner, not on teacher instruction.
• This is not reading comprehension as such but the processes inherent in working with texts for the purposes of recalling, remembering, and producing responses.
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Metacognitive Act
“Know what to do and when to do it”
(Allgood, Risko, Alvarez, & Fairbanks, 2000)
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Study Goals
Question 2:
What are basic goals of studying?
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Study Goals
Question 2:
What are basic goals of studying?• Locate Information• Understand and Remember Content• Organize Information (Roe, 2007)
You are preparing for an exam in psychology. The exam will cover about 8 chapters from your course textbook and your class notes. The test is in two weeks. The test focuses primarily on concepts and vocabulary from those chapters. The test includes application-type questions in which you are expected to choose the appropriate term that illustrates the concept. What would be the best study strategies?
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Discussion Question #1You are preparing for an exam in psychology. The exam will cover about 8 chapters from your course textbook and your class notes. The test is in two weeks. The test focuses primarily on concepts and vocabulary from those chapters. The test includes application-type questions in which you are expected to choose the appropriate term that illustrates the concept. What would be the best study strategies?
– Factual Study Guides (Brothen T. & Wambach, C., 2000)
M.; Carr, J., 2004)– Practice Test-taking (Gloe, 1999; Collins,
1999)
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Discussion Question #2
You have an assignment in your English class to write a paper in two weeks that is a critical analysis of a short story. What would be the best study strategies?
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Discussion Question #2
You have an assignment in your English class to write a paper in two weeks that is a critical analysis of a short story. What would be the best study strategies?