Michael Pressley’s research while affiliated with Michigan State University and other places

... Students were instructed to read the guiding questions and to complete each question after they had read the appropriate section in the assigned material. All guiding questions emphasized relevant aspects of the text (Callender & McDaniel, 2007) to encourage students to activate prior knowledge and relate new ideas from the text to information that is already known (Woloshyn, Pressley, & Schneider, 1992). We also constructed the questions in such a way as to help readers form connections between the items that were being learned (Seifert, 1993). ...

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Guiding Questions Promote Learning of Expository Text for Less-Skilled Readers

... Levitt and Red Owl (2013) emphasise the teacher's role in designing the learning environment and suggest that it is the teacher's experiences and values that shape it. The teacher's knowledge and didactic skills have been recognised as greatly signi cant, then, for the learning of the students (e.g., Cummins, 2012;Pressley & Allington, 2015). The way in which the teacher designs and stages teaching is crucial for the establishment of a positive classroom climate, which in turn in uences the students' written language development (Forsling & Tjernberg, 2023). ...

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Language-Learning Strategies in Sweden: Newly Arrived Students’ Perceptions

... Following the exposures to learning environments, the classical perspective suggests that transfer happens when learning and transfer situations share common elements; skills transfer can be 'near' (in similar contexts) or 'far' (across dissimilar contexts) (Thorndike, 1906). Near transfer is typically easier, while far transfer requires abstracting and applying knowledge to novel situations (Bigand & Tillmann, 2022;Detterman & Sternberg, 1993;Kassai et al., 2019). Learners benefit from engaging with multiple situations to build abstract representations that facilitate transfer (Chen & Daehler, 2000;Gentner et al., 2003). ...

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From gaming to reality: effectiveness of skills transfer from competitive sandbox gaming environment to near and far contexts

... Se ha observado que al aplicar un método equilibrado e interactivo los estudiantes demuestran interés por los textos reales, interesantes y significativos; se motivan y tienen una sensación de logro al "jugar a leer"; aprenden a visualizar la estructura física de distintos textos: poesías, recetas, cartas y cuentos; desarrollan la comprensión y el pensamiento crítico (Medina, 2006). Además, se ha comprobado que facilita el aprendizaje lector de los niños en desaventaja lingüística y social (Miles et al., 2004;Taylor et al., 2002). Entre las desventajas al aplicar un método de este tipo se encuentra que se requiere un profesor experto en la enseñanza de la lectura inicial capaz de tomar decisiones pedagógicas acordes a las necesidades de cada estudiante (Spiegel, 1998); otro factor es la complejidad de la ejecución práctica para lograr mantener balanceados los énfasis de las estrategias de enseñanza (Frey et al., 2005). ...

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Comparación de la efectividad de dos estrategias metodológicas de enseñanza en el desarrollo de la comprensión lectora en el primer año escolar

... Seimbang dalam artian tidak hanya berfokus pada satu upaya saja, namun menyasar berbagai metode untuk memberikan pengalaman literasi yang optimal bagi anak. Program kampus mengajar bertautan dengan teori balanced literacy yang mengedepankan pentingnya keseimbangan antara pengajaran langsung (explicit instruction) dan pembelajaran berbasis pengalaman pada semua aspek literasi (Frey et al., 2005;Pressley et al., 2017). Program tersebut menunjukkan adanya fleksibilitas strategi, fokus pada kemampuan dasar & pemahaman, inklusivitas peserta didik, serta pengalaman literasi menyenangkan, yang mana hal tersebut sesuai dengan teori balanced literacy. ...

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Penguatan Literasi Siswa di Sekolah Dasar dalam Era Kurikulum Merdeka Belajar: A Systematic Literature Review

... The essentiality of frequent writing practice was apparent in the views expressed by the leaders interviewed. The need for more classroom composition time also has been consistently emphasized in the literature (Pressley et al., 2003;Pressley, Gaskins, Solic, & Collins, 2006;Pressley, Mohan, Fingeret, Reffitt, & Raphael-Bogart, 2007;Wharton-McDonald, Pressley, & Hampston, 1998). Writing across the curriculum is one way that teachers can find more time for writing throughout the school day. ...

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Conversations with Leaders: Principles of Effective Writing Instruction

... Its success is due to students' deployed efforts and the teaching strategies used by teachers. On the other hand, a strategy can be defined as a complex cognitive or meta-cognitive operation that allows one to reach a given goal by employing a series of actions carried out consistently or inconsistently [42]. The strategy will serve to carry out cognitive processes such as comprehension and memorization. ...

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Explicit Instruction-based Methodology forTeaching Introductory Computer Programming

... extremely robust form of learning research (Kuhn, 2002) that focuses on the development of conceptual understanding. However, due to the intensive nature of data collection and analysis required, microgenetic research is typically performed with very small numbers of participants, which limits the application of the findings (Pressley, 1992). In our work, we seek to address this limitation of the microgenetic approach by exploring how computational means can be developed and meaningfully deployed to assist researchers in microgenetic analysis. ...

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Exploring the potential of natural language processing to support microgenetic analysis of collaborative learning discussions

... In light of the study's findings, a revisiting of the case studies will be conducted, exploring how commentary can bridge the gap between the examined literal and interpretive translations as well as any additional value that commentary itself brings (88). Instances from the literal-to-interpretive translation case study and vice versa will be reconsidered regarding these over-arching lenses (89). These cases focus on the translation of classical texts written in an ancient language for modern readers with no prior knowledge (90). ...

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Commentary as a Translation Tool: Examining How Commentary Can Bridge the Gap Between Literal and Interpretive Translations of Class

... Practices are apt to vary across classrooms and schools as teachers strive to respond to the needs of their students. At minimum, variability ought to be documented in some manner, either through fidelity checklists or careful descriptions of what actually happened inside classrooms (see Taylor et al., 2000;Taylor et al., 2002). We should also consider models that embrace variability-rather than regard it as error variance that compromises the analyses and generalization of treatment effects. ...

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