Browsing by Author "Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N."
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Preservice teachers' and teachers' conceptions of energy and their ability to predict pupils' level of understanding
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Iordanou, Kalypso (2003)The study examined (a) the extent to which teachers and preservice teachers understand the concept of energy and adhere to particular preconceptions associated with it; and (b) their ability to predict pupils’ knowledge ...
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Prevalence, contexts, and correlates of child sexual abuse in Cyprus
Karayianni, Eleni; Fanti, Kostas A.; Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Hadjicharalambous, Maria-Zoe; Katsimicha, Evita (Elsevier Ltd, 2017)It is well documented that child sexual abuse (CSA) may be one of the major public health problems in the world, especially due to the co-occurrence with other types of abuse and negative developmental outcomes. The aim ...
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A psychology-inspired approach to automated narrative text comprehension
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Kakas, Antonis; Michael, L.; Miller, R. (2014)
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A psychology-inspired approach to automated narrative text comprehension
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Kakas, Antonis C.; Michael, Loizos; Miller, R. (AAAI press, 2014)We report on an ongoing research program to develop a formal framework for automated narrative text comprehension, bringing together know-how from research in Artificial Intelligence and the Psychology of Reading and ...
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Reading about energy: The effects of text structure in science learning and conceptual change
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Kendeou, Panayiota; Ioannides, Christos (2003)The present study investigated the effects of text structure in the acquisition of the concept of energy and the overcoming of specific preconceptions associated with it. Cypriot sixth-grade students read either a simple ...
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Reading argumentative texts: comprehension and evaluation goals and outcomes
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Ioannou, M. C.; Christodoulou, S. A. (2017)The study is situated at the interface between reading comprehension and critical thinking research. Its purpose was to examine the influence of reading goals and argument quality on the comprehension and critical evaluation ...
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The relationship between listening and reading comprehension of different types of text at increasing grade levels
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Stylianou, P.; Karefillidou, C.; Papageorgiou, P. (2005)This study examined the hypotheses that (a) the relationship between listening and reading comprehension becomes stronger after decoding mastery; (b) the difference between listening and reading decreases with increasing ...
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The Role of Contextual Information in Word Meaning Acquisition during Normal Reading.
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Anderson, Richard C. (Illinois Univ, Urbana Center for the Study,of Reading;Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc.,, 1991)A study was conducted to examine the data collected by previous researchers on the degree of helpfulness of natural contexts. In this study two schemes of context cue types were compared on the basis of their contribution ...
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The Role of Inhibition in Conceptual Learning from Refutation and Standard Expository Texts
Mason, Lucia; Zaccoletti, Sonia; Carretti, Barbara; Scrimin, Sara; Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N. (2019)
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The role of reading comprehension in word meaning acquisition during reading
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N. (1998)The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of reading comprehension on the acquisition of word meanings from context and to compare it to the effects of local context characteristics, such as proximity and ...
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STAR: A system of argumentation for story comprehension and beyond
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Kakas, Antonis; Michael, L.; Miller, R. (2015)
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STAR: A system of argumentation for story comprehension and beyond
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Kakas, Antonis C.; Michael, Loizos; Miller, R. (AI Access Foundation, 2015)This paper presents the STAR system, a system for automated narrative comprehension, developed on top of an argumentation-theoretic formulation of defeasible reasoning, and strongly following guidelines from the psychology ...
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Story Comprehension through Argumentation
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Kakas, Antonis; Michael, L.; Miller, R. (IOS Press, 2014)This paper presents a novel application of argumentation for automated Story Comprehension (SC). It uses argumentation to develop a computational approach for SC as this is understood and studied in psychology. Argumentation ...
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Story Comprehension through Argumentation
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Kakas, Antonis C.; Michael, Loizos; Miller, R. (2014)This paper presents a novel application of argumentation for automated Story Comprehension (SC). It uses argumentation to develop a computational approach for SC as this is understood and studied in psychology. Argumentation ...
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Student teachers' beliefs about creativity
Diakidoy, Irene-Anna N.; Kanari, E. (1999)The purpose of the present study was to examine student teachers' beliefs about creativity, creative outcomes, and factors related to creativity. Even though the importance of facilitating creativity in educational settings ...