Ellen R. Hart’s research while affiliated with University of Maryland, College Park and other places

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Reciprocal Teaching Goes to College: Effects for Postsecondary Students at Risk for Academic Failure
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December 1998

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Journal of Educational Psychology

Ellen R. Hart

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This study investigated the effects of a structured reading comprehension technique, reciprocal teaching, on postsecondary students at risk for academic failure. The sample comprised 50 at-risk students enrolled in a community college who participated in either the reciprocal teaching or cooperative learning condition. The reciprocal teaching group performed significantly better than the comparison group on reading comprehension and strategy acquisition. There were no differences on perception of study skills. In secondary analyses, poorer readers in the reciprocal teaching condition benefited differentially, outperforming poorer readers in the comparison condition on both reading comprehension and strategy acquisition measures. That a structured reading comprehension strategy for college-age students was effective has implications for the design of remedial courses at 2- and 4-year colleges. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

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Reciprocal Teaching Goes to College: Effects for Postsecondary Students at Risk for Academic Failure

December 1998

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25 Reads

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59 Citations

Journal of Educational Psychology

This study investigated the effects of a structured reading comprehension technique, reciprocal teaching, on postsecondary students at risk for academic failure. The sample comprised 50 at-risk students enrolled in a community college who participated in either the reciprocal teaching or cooperative learning condition. The reciprocal teaching group performed significantly better than the comparison group on reading comprehension and strategy acquisition. There were no differences on perception of study skills. In secondary analyses, poorer readers in the reciprocal teaching condition benefited differentially, outperforming poorer readers in the comparison condition on both reading comprehension and strategy acquisition measures. That a structured reading comprehension strategy for college-age students was effective has implications for the design of remedial courses at 2- and 4-year colleges.

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... The majority of studies on reciprocal teaching involved kids (e.g., Dokur, 2017;Kula & Budak, 2020). In another study, Hart and Speece (1998) investigated how community college students' reading comprehension skills were impacted by reciprocal instruction. According to their findings, the reciprocal teaching group greatly outperformed the comparison group on reading comprehension assessments. ...

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Research Paper Implementation of Reciprocal- scaffolding Treatment in Virtual Learning Context: Iranian EFL Learners' Listening and Speaking Skills
Reciprocal Teaching Goes to College: Effects for Postsecondary Students at Risk for Academic Failure
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  • December 1998

Journal of Educational Psychology

... Questioning is when the teacher asks a reader to construct questions they may be asked in a test situation and to construct questions that assist others in developing a deeper inferential knowledge of the text (Okkinga et al., 2018). Summarising is when an instructor asks students to review and infer a passage's key meaning and messages and concisely recount what was read (Hart & Speece, 1998) (See Figure 2). All these strategies are used to make the subconscious reading process conscious and present to help the reader evaluate the text whilst reading and to help guide the reader in what effective inferential reading is (Rosenshine & Meister, 1994). ...

Reciprocal Teaching Goes to College: Effects for Postsecondary Students at Risk for Academic Failure

Journal of Educational Psychology