Heather Tatsak and Andrea Taatjes co-author book chapter

Heather Tatsak (Psychology ‘13) and Andrea Taatjes (Psychology ‘13) served as co-authors on a chapter in a new book titled Applying Science of Learning in Education: Infusing Psychological Science into the Curriculum. The students authored along with Jennifer Stiegler-Balfour, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology.
 

The edited book addresses important concepts, principles and theories in cognitive psychology and their application related to the science of learning.

The chapter by Tatsak, Taatjes, and Stiegler-Balfour is on “The Influence of Guiding Questions on Skilled- and Less-Skilled Readers’ Understanding of Written Discourse" and describes the results of a study assessing the effect of guiding questions on comprehension and retention levels of expository text.

The results indicated that participants who scored lowest on a reading assessment measure benefited the most from the guiding questions indicated by significantly higher rates of delayed recall.

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