Organization and Comprehensibility in Scientific Proofs, or "Consider a Particle p...."

Effects on comprehension of a text structure used primarily in science and mathematics to present principles and associated proofs were studied for 70 undergraduates in 3 experiments. Results suggest that the usual proof-first structure is more difficult than a principle-first structure and results...

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Published inJournal of educational psychology Vol. 82; no. 4; p. 701
Main Authors Dee-Lucas, Diana, Larkin, Jill H
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.12.1990
Subjects
Higher Education
Readability
Reader Text Relationship
Reading Comprehension
Science Writing
Scientific and Technical Information
Scientific Literacy
Technical Writing
Text Organization
Text Processing (Reading)
Text Structure
Undergraduate Students
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Summary:Effects on comprehension of a text structure used primarily in science and mathematics to present principles and associated proofs were studied for 70 undergraduates in 3 experiments. Results suggest that the usual proof-first structure is more difficult than a principle-first structure and results in less complete text representation. (SLD)
ISSN:0022-0663
DOI:10.1037/0022-0663.82.4.701