{"pk":25395,"title":"Change your Mind: Investigating the Effects of Self-Explanation in the Resolution of Misconceptions","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We investigated the differential effects of self-explaining a\nrefutational text, compared to thinking aloud or rereading.\nUndergraduate students (n = 105) read a refutational text\nabout natural selection and were asked to either self-explain,\nthink-aloud, or re-read the text. Then they completed a\nposttest that assessed general knowledge of natural selection.\nStudents who self-explained the refutational text subsequently\noutperformed their peers on a test of their knowledge of\nnatural selection. Additionally, the results suggest that both\ninstructional and performance differences were significantly\nlinked to the degree of causal cohesion present within\nstudents’ natural language responses to the text (i.e., selfexplanations\nand think-alouds).","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"comprehension; conceptual change;\ncomputational linguistics; cohesion; self-explanation;\nstrategies"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2nh7f831","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Laura","middle_name":"K","last_name":"Allen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Arizona State University, Department of Psychology","department":""},{"first_name":"Danielle","middle_name":"S","last_name":"McNamara","name_suffix":"","institution":"Arizona State University, Department of Psychology","department":""},{"first_name":"Mathew","middle_name":"T","last_name":"McCrudden","name_suffix":"","institution":"Victoria University of Wellington, School of Education","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25395/galley/15019/download/"}]}