iSTART: A Web-Based Tutor That Teaches Self-Explanation and Metacognitive Reading Strategies

Reading Comprehension Strategies: Theories, Interventions, and Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 397-420

  McNamara, Danielle S ^a   O’Reilly, Tenaha ^a   Rowe, Michael ^a   Boonthum, Chutima ^b   Levinstein, Irwin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203810033-20     Document Type: Chapter

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