Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Active reading"”.
-
Lines of Relation: Devotional Verse and Active Reading in Late Medieval English Books
… them first and foremost as poems inviting active interpretive engagement on the part of the reader. What unites these texts under the banner of penitential labor, I show, is their use of the poetic line as a form prompting readers to explore, at once, personal limit and limitless social …
-
Use of Reading Strategy to Assess Reading Medium Effectiveness: Application to Determine the Effects of Reading Medium and Generation in an Active Reading Task
… sharing among professions. However, electronic reading media have still not been well integrated into these settings, especially for non-routine cognitive tasks like active reading. Conflicting results from different measures (e.g., performance, preference) have been reported regarding their …
-
Assessing the Impact of Metacognition and Reading Lessons on Metacognitive Awareness, Reading Comprehension, and Attitude in Introductory College Biology
… the role of metacognitive strategies to enhance reading comprehension, yet there is little data to date on this topic in college science classes. The research question of this dissertation is: Does teaching metacognitive skills and active reading strategies in college introductory biology improve …
-
Augmenting free-form annotations with digital metadata for close reading of poetry
… literary critics in particular, practice close reading, making annotations by hand while performing a detailed analysis of a text. Current digital tools for literary criticism,however, have many limitations with respect to annotation. In this work, we present an ethnographic study of 14 …
-
VText: A Plug-in Extension to Add Electronic Textbook Functionality to Microsoft OneNote
… in that they allow the user to go beyond just reading material on a computer screen. Electronic textbooks encourage the user to accomplish all of the operations typically performed with a hardcopy text in addition to some functions not possible with paper books. With electronic textbooks users …
-
Spatial Reading System for Individuals with Blindness
In this research we introduce a novel reading system that enables Individuals with Blindness<br />or Severe Visual Impairment (IBSVI) to have equivalent spatial reading experience to their<br />sighted counterparts, in terms of being able to engage in different reading strategies e.g.<br …
-
The Enhancing Reading Comprehension Performance using the Strategy of Highlighting Electronic Text
<p>Reading comprehension is a criterial skill that an individual must utilize to navigate in the twenty-first century. This skill is developed throughout grade school and continues into adulthood. Many successful readers use active highlighting to assist in their reading comprehension. Active …
-
Returning to Childhood: Memoirs of Childhood Reading
… <em>The Child that Books Built: A Life in Reading, </em>Jane Sullivan’s <em>Storytime: Growing up with Books, </em>and Margaret Mackey’s <em>One Child Reading: My Auto-Bibliography </em>to investigate how memoirists recall events and reread stories from childhood. I argue that memoirs of …
-
Diagnosing Reading strategies: Paraphrase Recognition
… The context of the present work is an automated reading strategy trainer called iSTART (Interactive Strategy Trainer for Active Reading and Thinking). The ability to recognize the use of paraphrase—a complete, partial, or inaccurate paraphrase; with or without extra information—in the student's …
-
Using signal processing, evolutionary computation, and machine learning to identify transposable elements in genomes
… based on the Fourier transform used to assess reading frame use. These features measure how different the reading frame use is from that of a random sequence, which reading frames the sequence is using, and the proportion of use of the active reading frames. The second type of feature, called …
-
A Grounded Theory study of English as Second Language (ESL) students’ experiences with literary texts, with reference to the University of Zululand
… dictionaries to mediate lexical difficulty, reading fluency is adversely affected; and the condition is exacerbated by the length of the text which brings about loss of plot navigation whereby some readers forget parts of the plot due prolonged engagement in the context of available reading …