Children learn new words via their everyday reading experience but little is known about how this learning happens. We addressed this by focusing on the conditions needed for new words to become familiar to children, drawing a distinction between lexical configuration (the acquisition of word knowledge) and lexical engagement (the emergence of interactive processes between newly learned words a...

One important aspect of motivation is engagement. In order to learn, students need to be engaged in the learning activities. However, that does not always happen due to various factors. This paper investigates the possibility to detect the level of engagement of a learner using an e-Learning system. More specifically, we are looking for actions that could predict it. Using log files analysis we...

Decades of research offer important understandings about the nature comprehension and its development. Drawing on both classic contemporary research, in this article, we identify some key reading processes instruction, including these: Comprehension instruction should begin early, teaching word-reading bridging skills (including graphophonological semantic cognitive flexibility, morphological a...

This paper explores building blocks in extant and emerging social media toward the possibilities they offer to the scholarly edition in electronic form, positing that we are witnessing the nascent stages of a new social edition existing at the intersection of social media and the digital editing. Beginning with a typological formulation of electronic scholarly editions, activities common to hum...

We examined the evidence from functional imaging studies for predominance of a phonological left temporo-parietal (TP) dysfunction in dyslexic children and predominance of a visual-orthographic left occipito-temporal (OT) dysfunction in dyslexic adults. Separate meta-analyses of 9 studies with children (age means: 9-11 years) and of 9 studies with adults (age means: 18-30 years) and statistical...

News portals are a popular destination for web users who read news online. News providers are therefore greatly interested in attaining higher visitor rates and promoting greater engagement with their content. One aspect of user engagement deals with keeping users on site longer, by allowing them to navigate through enhanced click-through experiences. Therefore, news portals have invested in wa...

Patient engagement practices are increasingly incorporated in health research, governance, and care. More recently, a large number of evaluation tools and metrics have been developed to support engagement evaluation. This growing interest in evaluation reflects a maturation of the patient engagement field, moving from a “craft” to a reflective “art and science,” with more explicit expected bene...

In light of persistent Black-White achievement gaps for boys, this study examined publicly monitored risks believed to be associated with being behind academically for an entire subpopulation of African American boys in a large urban public school district. Also examined were indicators of academic engagement hypothesized to mediate the relations between risks and low achievement. Findings indi...

Article history: Accepted 5 June 2015 Available online 11 June 2015 Digital textbook analytics are a new method of collecting student-generated data in order to build predictive models of student success. Previous research using self-report or laboratory measures of reading show that engagement with the textbook was related to student learning outcomes. We hypothesized that an engagement index ...

‘Scepticism’ in public attitudes towards climate change is seen as a significant barrier to public engagement. In an experimental study, we measured participants’ scepticism about climate change before and after reading two newspaper editorials that made opposing claims about the reality and seriousness of climate change (designed to generate uncertainty). A well-established social psychologica...