Browsing by Author "Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N."
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The acquisition of morphology: Learning the contribution of suffixes to the meanings of derivatives
Nagy, William E.; Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Anderson, Richard C. (1993)This study explored the development of students’ knowledge of the meanings of 10 common English suffixes. A test was constructed to assess students’ knowledge of the contribution of suffixes to the meanings of derivatives. ...
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Bridging Reading Comprehension and Conceptual Change in Science Education: The Promise of Refutation Text
Sinatra, Gale M.; Broughton, Suzanne H.; Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Kendeou, Panayiota; van den Broek, Paul (Wiley, International Reading Association], 2011)The use of texts in science classrooms has waned significantly over the past two decades. However, recently, researchers have shown renewed interest in the use of refutation texts as a tool for promoting conceptual change ...
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Comprehension and learning from refutation and expository texts
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Mouskounti, Thalia; Ioannides, Christos (2011)The study compared the effects of a refutation text on comprehension and learning outcomes to those of a standard expository text. Undergraduate students with varying amounts of accurate and inaccurate prior knowledge read ...
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Book Chapter
Comprehension and learning from scientific text.
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N. (Art of Text, 1999)
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Comprehension processes and outcomes with refutation and expository texts and their contribution to learning
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Mouskounti, Thalia; Fella, A.; Ioannides, Christos (2016)The study compared the comprehension processes and outcomes obtained with refutation and expository text and their association with learning outcomes. After a knowledge pretest, undergraduate students read an extended ...
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Conceptual change in astronomy: Models of the earth and of the day/night cycle in American-Indian children
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Vosniadou, S.; Hawks, JD (1997)The purpose of the present study was to examine the models of the earth and the day/night cycle formed by American-Indian children. Twenty-six Lakota/Dakota children in the first, third, and fifth grades were interviewed ...
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Creativity in physics: Response fluency and task specificity
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Constantinou, Constantinos P. (2000)The purpose of this study was to explore creativity in the domain of physics and, specifically, its relation to fluency of responses (divergent thinking) and type of task. Fifty-four university students were pretested on ...
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Creativity in physics: Response fluency and task specificity
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Constantinou, Constantinos P. (2000)The purpose of this study was to explore creativity in the domain of physics and, specifically, its relation to fluency of responses (divergent thinking) and type of task. Fifty-four university students were pretested on ...
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Book
Creativity in school: Intereventions and outcomes.
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Papageorgiou, Eleni; Karallis, G. (Pedagogical Institute, 2010)
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Book
The development of knowledge of derivational suffixes [microform]
Nagy, William E.; Anderson, Richard C.; Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N. (Champaign, Ill. : Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois, 1991)
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Domain specificity in creativity testing: A comparison of performance on a general divergent-thinking test and a parallel, content-specific test
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Spanoudis,George C. (2002)The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which domain-specific components, such as content and type of task, influence divergent thinking and creativity by comparing the performance of 112 ninth-grade students ...
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The Effects of Familiarization with Oral Expository Text on Listening and Reading Comprehension Levels
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N. (2014)This study examined the effects of text type and early familiarization with oral expository text structures on listening and reading comprehension levels. Second-grade students read and listened to narrative and expository ...
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Elementary school children's ability to distinguish hypothetical beliefs from statements of preference
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Ioannides, Christos (2004)The authors examined students' understanding of hypotheses as beliefs that can be empirically verified. Thirty second graders and 30 sixth graders considered cases of disagreement about foods and colors that reflected ...
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Facilitating conceptual change in astronomy: A comparison of the effectiveness of two instructional approaches
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Kendeou, Panayiota (2001)The purpose of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of two instructional approaches in the acquisition of basic astronomy concepts. Sixty-three fifth-grade students were pre-tested on their knowledge of the ...
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Forming a belief: The contribution of comprehension to the evaluation and persuasive impact of argumentative text
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Christodoulou, S. A.; Floros, G.; Iordanou, Kalypso; Kargopoulos, P. V. (2015)Background: Research has shown substantial belief change as a result of reading text and the pervasive influence of prior belief in the evaluation of short arguments. Both outcomes have been attributed to the depth to which ...
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Forming a belief: The contribution of comprehension to the evaluation and persuasive impact of argumentative text
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Christodoulou, Stelios A.; Floros, Georgios; Iordanou, Kalypso; Kargopoulos, Philip V. (2015)
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Inferences in the comprehension and learning from refutation text
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Shamounki, Christina; Ioannides, Christos; Mouskounti, Thalia (2008)
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The issue of domain specificity in creativity testing: A comparison of performance on a general divergent-thinking test and a parallel content-specific test.
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Spanoudis,George C. (2002)The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which domain‐specific components, such as content and type of task, influence divergent thinking and creativity by comparing the performance of 112 ninth‐grade students ...
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Conference Object
Non-Monotonic Reasoning and Story Comprehension
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Kakas, Antonis; Michael, Loizos; Miller, Rob (2014)
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Parents’ and teachers’ views on the psychosocial adjustment of students with and without a history of early grade retention
Anastasiou, A. I.; Papachristou, E. M.; Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N. (2017)The study compared teachers’ and parents’ views about elementary school children’s psychosocial adjustment with and without a history of early grade retention. The sample included retained and non-retained students currently ...