Reading into the text: Investigating the influence of text complexity on cognitive engagement

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Vega, Ben ^a   Feng, Shi ^a   Lehman, Blair ^a   Graesser, Arthur C ^a   D’Mello, Sidney ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Boredom; Engagement; Reading; Text complexity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; STUDENTS;

ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE; BOREDOM; ENGAGEMENT; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; LEARNING TASKS; READING; TEXT COMPLEXITY;

DATA MINING;

EID: 85084012749     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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