Readers with misconceptions spend more time reading law sentences than readers without misconceptions, but only in refutation texts¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i3 In Experiment 2, reading times of Newton's law sentences showed a text structure × prior knowledge interaction (F(1,44) = 8.3, p = .006, η² = .16); the misconception group read law sentences slower than the nonmisconception group only in refutation texts. → Kendeou 2007

Evidence¶

Kendeou 2007¶

Kendeou, P., & van den Broek, P. (2007). The effects of prior knowledge and text structure on comprehension processes during reading of scientific texts. Memory & Cognition, 35(7), 1567-1577. https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03193491

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Reading-time experiment (Experiment 2) with 69 undergraduates (9 excluded), 30 per group, reading texts sentence by sentence on computer; reading times per syllable analyzed for target law and explanation sentences with Tukey outlier removal. The interaction (η² = .16) localized the slowdown to refutation texts.

"This main effect was qualified by an interaction between text structure and prior knowledge [ F(1,44) 8.3, p .006, h2 .16]. Post hoc analyses showed that readers with misconceptions spent more time reading the law sentences than did readers without misconceptions in the refutation texts [t(44) 4.3, p .01], but not in the nonrefutation texts"

Discussion¶

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