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      Scientific Literacy: The Role of Goal-Directed Reading and Evaluation in Understanding Scientific Information

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      Educational Psychologist
      Informa UK Limited

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            Strong Inference: Certain systematic methods of scientific thinking may produce much more rapid progress than others.

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              Constructing inferences during narrative text comprehension.

              The authors describe a constructionist theory that accounts for the knowledge-based inferences that are constructed when readers comprehend narrative text. Readers potentially generate a rich variety of inferences when they construct a referential situation model of what the text is about. The proposed constructionist theory specifies that some, but not all, of this information is constructed under most conditions of comprehension. The distinctive assumptions of the constructionist theory embrace a principle of search (or effort) after meaning. According to this principle, readers attempt to construct a meaning representation that addresses the reader's goals, that is coherent at both local and global levels, and that explains why actions, events, and states are mentioned in the text. This study reviews empirical evidence that addresses this theory and contrasts it with alternative theoretical frameworks.
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                Journal
                Educational Psychologist
                Educational Psychologist
                Informa UK Limited
                0046-1520
                1532-6985
                June 05 2014
                May 19 2014
                : 49
                : 2
                : 104-122
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                10.1080/00461520.2014.916217
                4ed31251-7e27-4ac2-b11c-96ac3eed4d94
                © 2014
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