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| العنوان: |
The relationship between theory of mind and multiple-document comprehension in university students: preliminary research findings. |
| المؤلفون: |
Tarchi, Christian, Casado-Ledesma, Lidia, Sanna, Giulia, Conti, Margherita |
| المصدر: |
European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE (Springer Science & Business Media B.V.); Sep2024, Vol. 39 Issue 3, p1841-1864, 24p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
THEORY of mind, COLLEGE students, TWENTY-first century, STUDENT research, PROTOCOL analysis (Cognition), UNDERGRADUATES |
| مستخلص: |
The demands of learning in the twenty-first century require being skilled in the use and comprehension of multiple documents. Some individual factors such as the metacognitive skill of theory of mind (ToM) are related to this ability. This study investigated the relationship between university students' ability to comprehend multiple documents, measured through an argumentative essay task, and their ToM. The participants were 84 undergraduates. We assessed their ToM (using the strange stories task) and their mental state talk (using a think-aloud protocol during the reading of multiple documents—MSTR—and through the content of their subsequent written essays—MSTW). The relation between students' ToM and their MSTW was mediated through MSTR. In addition, students' ToM was significantly associated with the quality of the essays, through MSTR, and the relation between MSTR and the argumentative quality was mediated through MSTW. MSTW was the only significant predictor of the quality of the essays. The involvement of ToM in multiple-document comprehension suggests, from an educational perspective, the possibility to support multiple-document comprehension by scaffolding mental state talk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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