Mônica Macedo-Rouet

CY Cergy Paris Université · Inspé de Versailles

‘In your opinion, what are some important research questions, problems or challenges that scholars in your field of specialization should address in the coming years? What types of studies should be conducted to move your field further? Please justify’. This prompt was posed by the incoming Editor of JSED to the new team of Deputy and Associate Edi...

The aim of this paper is to investigate when and how Brazilian teenagers assess the credibility of information sources. We analyze data collected through focus groups, guided internet searches, and interviews with sixty-one 14- to 19-year olds from the state of Rio de Janeiro. Participants used different criteria to attribute credibility to informa...

L'évaluation des sources d'information en ligne est une compétence de lecture finalisée que beaucoup d'adolescents ne maîtrisent pas, ou pas complètement, et qui nécessite une formation explicite. Notre étude visait à promouvoir la capacité des élèves de Troisième à lire et interpréter de façon critique des informations issues de différents types d...

Neste artigo, apresentamos uma análise de comentários das postagens mais comentadas de páginas do Facebook relacionados ao movimento antivacina no Brasil e na França. O objetivo é estabelecer uma comparação das discussões e da atuação do movimento nos dois países, que possuem um perfil diferenciado. Enquanto no país europeu o movimento já é conheci...

Searching texts both online and in print has become an essential skill for twenty-first-century students. Although most children can read fluently and comprehend short texts by the age of 10, research suggests that older students and even adults experience difficulties when searching for information inside texts. This chapter synthesizes various th...

In this study, we investigated to what extent memory constraints and different reading tasks affect readers’ text processing. One hundred and twenty students volunteered in this 2 (text availability: with text vs without text) * 3 (question type: location, integration and evaluation) mixed-design study. Participants had to read five texts (single a...

The World Wide Web has become a major information resource for adolescents (i.e., 10–19 years of age), offering an unprecedented amount of information on virtually any topic. While the Web can potentially offer new learning opportunities, it also presents several challenges. Reading and learning on the Web requires a set of advanced literacy skills...

This study investigates the relationship between teenagers’ use of social networking sites (SNS) and their sourcing abilities. Sourcing is defined as students’ ability (1) to discriminate reliable and unreliable links based on source characteristics, (2) to value source criteria as means to select information resources and (3) to select reliable te...

This study examines the development of source evaluation skills in four groups of students from 10 to 19 years of age. We designed a set of tasks based on a distinction between three components of source evaluation: the identification of source parameters; the evaluation of source features such as the source’s competence or benevolence under explic...

This study critically examines the construct of reading comprehension assessment as it relates to adolescents' digital literacy skills. We review recent studies that have demonstrated how memory-based and text available assessments measure different components of reading comprehension and how such tasks might not be affected by the same individual...

The authors examined adolescents’ detection of features that affect the quality of web information. In experiment 1, participants (12–16 years old) rated the goodness/usefulness of four web‐like documents for a simulated study assignment. Each document came with an issue that potentially undermined its quality. Two documents had source‐related issu...

Resumo Neste artigo, apresentamos um estudo de caráter qualitativo, cujo objetivo foi comparar a percepção de adolescentes do Rio de Janeiro e de Paris sobre a ciência e a imagem do cientista. A proposta de comparar os jovens cariocas e parisienes baseia-se no fato de que há similaridades entre Brasil e França no que se refere à função social da TV...

Publishing and searching for videos online are two common human activities that remain under-investigated today. We investigated these two related activities through interviews with users of an online academic audiovisual database. Seven publication managers and eight users were asked to explain their goals and strategies for publishing/searching f...

Increased amounts of information available from the Internet have triggered new demands for students to evaluate information quality. Our study presents an instructional intervention aimed at fostering ninth grade students’ critical evaluation of source reliability. The intervention was grounded into theories of multiple text comprehension and used...

Although information on the Web notoriously involves reliable and less reliable sources, research has found that middle school students hardly ever attend to source information (e.g., author, date of publication) while reading online. Nonetheless, studies show that students are able to evaluate source information and understand how this can inform...

Social question & answer forums offer great learning opportunities, but students need to evaluate the credibility of answers to avoid being misled by untrustworthy sources. This critical evaluation may be beyond the capabilities of students from primary and secondary school. We conducted two studies to assess how students from primary, secondary an...

We present an empirical investigation of a classroom training fostering vocational students’ consideration of source information when deciding about science-based controversies. The training was specifically aimed at raising students’ awareness of the division of cognitive labor and the resulting need to take a source’s competence into account when...

In two experiments, we examined fourth and fifth graders' comprehension of the source of information in texts presenting controversial issues. In Experiment 1, participants read short texts in which two people presented different arguments regarding an issue. Participants identified who said what and evaluated each source's knowledge of the issue....

The present study investigated the strategies used by experienced researchers to find articles in an online bibliographic database.Objective The goal was to shed light on researchers’ actual search behaviour by empirically observing users during the search process.Method We asked 16 neuroscience researchers and 16 researchers in other disciplines o...

Two experiments investigated primary and secondary school students' Web menu selection strategies using simulated Web search tasks. It was hypothesized that students' selections of websites depend on their perception and integration of multiple relevance cues. More specifically, students should be able to disentangle superficial cues (e.g., keyword...

The use of computers to deliver course-related materials is rapidly expanding in most universities. Yet the effects of computer vs. printed delivery modes on students’ performance and motivation are not yet fully known. We compared the impacts of Web vs. paper to deliver practice quizzes that require information search in lecture notes. Hundred and...

The effects of videoconferencing are analysed on the basis of a review of studies and evaluation reports at the international level. Our goal is to discuss the hypothesis that videoconferencing reduces transactional distance as stated by Moore (1993). Six types of videoconferencing use are identified. Their contribution to learning as well as their...

Hypermedia can potentially increase the number of information sources and improve scientific communication by facilitating public debate. However, reading hypermedia documents can lead to difficulties such as disorientation for a number of readers. We investigated a corpus of hypermedia reports from online science magazines in the light of ergonomi...

Many French universities have recently designed educational Web sites with the aim of modernizing teaching and to improve students' motivation. Do students learn better with such tools? Are they more satisfied and motivated? We conducted an experiment to assess the efficiency of an educational Web site, in terms of performance in solving exercises...

De nombreuses universités en France ont créé des sites Web pédagogiques avec l'objectif de moderniser leur pédagogie et motiver les étudiants. Les étudiants apprennent-ils mieux avec ces dispositifs ? Sont-ils plus satisfaits et motivés pour apprendre ? Nous avons réalisé une étude expérimentale pour évaluer l'apport pédagogique d'un site Web lors...

We conducted an experiment in order to examine the effectiveness of an educational Web site, which provides resources to undergraduate students in mathematics. The participants' task was to solve 18 questions about differential equations. Students in the paper condition outperformed those in Web site conditions. There was no difference between the...

Résumé L'utilisation des TICE comme moyen d'améliorer l'attractivité et la qualité des études scientifiques à l'université Lyon 1 résulte d'un constat qui nous a poussé à repenser profondément notre pédagogie, en particulier lors des travaux dirigés (TD) et pratiques. Le TD traditionnel se réduit trop souvent à un "cours de rattrapage" du cours mag...

Hypermedia has the potential to increase the number of information sources and to improve science communication by facilitating public debate. However, hypermedia reading leads to difficulties, such as disorientation, for a number of readers. We investigated a corpus of hypermedia reports from online science magazines in light of ergonomie recommen...

The present study examines the effects of print and online presentations of a multiple document report on reader's comprehension, perception of cognitive load, satisfaction, and attention. We hypothesized that users of online media would show poorer results compared with print users. An experimental protocol was used to assess readers' performance...

This paper examines the uses of hypermedia technologies by popular science magazines, in the light of the potential implied by these technologies. In a series of two studies, we investigated the argumentation and readability of texts and hypertexts from six popular science magazines and we conducted an experimental study with one of the texts from...

Examina a utilização que fazem revistas de divulgação científica das tecnologias hipermídia. Em uma série de dois estudos, analisamos a argumentação e as condições de legibilidade de um conjunto de textos e hipertextos de seis revistas internacionais e avaliamos a compreensão de um hipertexto de divulgação científica através de um estudo experiment...

This paper examines the uses of hypermedia technologies by popular science magazines, in the light of the potential implied by these technologies. In a series of two studies, we investigated the argumentation and readability of texts and hypertexts from six popular science magazines and we conducted an experimental study with one of the texts from...