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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Knowledge Acquisition in the Content Area Classroom: Exploring the Consequences of Instruction (Reading Comprehension)
Abstract
dc:descriptionA series of studies designed to address basic questions about instruction in subject areas such as science and social studies at the elementary level were described and findings reported. The focus of investigation was group discussion of textbook content, and the basic questions addressed concerned the effects of instruction in terms of students' knowledge acquisition and their independent reading comprehension of novel content.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Education
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Gallagher, Margaret C.
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8600188
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69019