Ruth Garner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3828637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Garner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Garner |
| SIGNATURE | GARNER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Online images of industrialization in the American Midwest
Someone who doubts that photographs, like paintings and drawings, are an interpretation of the world might study the two historical photo collections discussed in this article. The views of industrialization could hardly be more dissimilar. Looking at both collections — photos and captions — is instructive
Digitizing Old Photographs for the Web
In the last few years, both small family photo collections and huge library and museum collections have been digitized and made available on the Web. In this article, we discuss reasons for digitizing. We describe an ongoing project in which children and adults in a technology-oriented after-school program in rural Michigan are digitizing photographs for a local historical society
Children's Use of New Technology for Picture-Taking
Photographs are often associated with children: People have children, they take pictures of them. We don't very often think about children as picture-takers, but our recent work has moved us in that direction. As part of an interest in children's use of new technology, we have studied children's picture-taking with new camera, computer, and Web technology. In this article, we discuss why and how children take pictures. We also discuss the issue o…
Interest and Learning from Text
Dewey (1913) suggested some time ago that trying to find out what is of interest to students is an important part of schooling; on the other hand, “making things interesting” is artificial and often unsuccessful. Two studies investigating the placement of interesting detail in a text about a physicist and his scientific work are reported here. In both studies, undergraduate students were asked to read the science text under a variety of condition…
Cognition, Metacognition, and Reading
Innovation in Teacher Education
Successful innovation in teacher educa tion depends upon resolving issues regarding four interrelated themes: identity, non-passivity, control, and cur riculum. The authors' examination of the first year and a half of an innovative mas ters-level program explores the specific development ofthese themes. For exam ple, faculty and prospective teachers began to establish an identity with teach ing and teacher education rather than with subject speci…
Multiple Measures of Text Summarization Proficiency
Given the existing literature on text summarization that documents what learners, particularly younger learners, cannot do, a study was designed to assess what fifth-grade students can do. Thirty students at two reading levels read an expository text, produced a summary, reflected on the summarizing process, and identified good and bad summaries for the text. Both successful and less successful readers were fairly adept at recognizing good summar…
Text Summarization Deficiencies Among Older Students
Two explanations for text summarization deficiencies among older learners were investigated. Forty students at each of three grade levels were asked to prepare optimal and nonoptimal short summaries for a written descriptive passage. Awareness of the importance of three aspects of successful summarization—inclusion of important ideas, succinctness, and integration—was measured by learner differentiation of the two summary products. Production abi…
Teacher Education on the Mall
Inducing Use of a Text Lookback Strategy among Unsuccessful Readers
A text lookback strategy was taught to 12 remedial readers in three sessions. Readers were taught why to use lookbacks, when to use them, and where to use them with expository texts and accompanying questions. Five days after training was completed, the 12 subjects and 12 students in a control group were assessed for use of lookbacks and question-answering accuracy. Significant differences between training and control groups emerged both for perc…
Externalizing Question-Answering Strategies of Good and Poor Comprehenders
THIRTY PAIRS of students (one sixth-grade tutor and one fourth-grade tutee in each pair) worked with an expository text and five questions following the text in the presence of an investigator. Under study were number of text lookbacks encouraged by tutors, differentiation of use of lookbacks for text-based versus reader-based questions, and appropriate text sampling. Good comprehender-poor comprehender tutor differences in strategic behavior enc…
Monitoring and Resolving Comprehension Obstacles
Ruth Garner, Ron Reis, Monitoring and Resolving Comprehension Obstacles: An Investigation of Spontaneous Text Lookbacks among Upper-Grade Good and Poor Comprehenders, Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 4 (1981), pp. 569-582
Monitoring and Resolving Comprehension Obstacles
Ruth Garner, Ron Reis, Monitoring and Resolving Comprehension Obstacles: An Investigation of Spontaneous Text Lookbacks among Upper-Grade Good and Poor Comprehenders, Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 4 (1981), pp. 569-582
Interest and Learning from Text
Dewey (1913) suggested some time ago that trying to find out what is of interest to students is an important part of schooling; on the other hand, “making things interesting” is artificial and often unsuccessful. Two studies investigating the placement of interesting detail in a text about a physicist and his scientific work are reported here. In both studies, undergraduate students were asked to read the science text under a variety of condition…
Externalizing Question-Answering Strategies of Good and Poor Comprehenders
THIRTY PAIRS of students (one sixth-grade tutor and one fourth-grade tutee in each pair) worked with an expository text and five questions following the text in the presence of an investigator. Under study were number of text lookbacks encouraged by tutors, differentiation of use of lookbacks for text-based versus reader-based questions, and appropriate text sampling. Good comprehender-poor comprehender tutor differences in strategic behavior enc…
Innovation in Teacher Education
Successful innovation in teacher educa tion depends upon resolving issues regarding four interrelated themes: identity, non-passivity, control, and cur riculum. The authors' examination of the first year and a half of an innovative mas ters-level program explores the specific development ofthese themes. For exam ple, faculty and prospective teachers began to establish an identity with teach ing and teacher education rather than with subject speci…
Text Summarization Deficiencies Among Older Students
Two explanations for text summarization deficiencies among older learners were investigated. Forty students at each of three grade levels were asked to prepare optimal and nonoptimal short summaries for a written descriptive passage. Awareness of the importance of three aspects of successful summarization—inclusion of important ideas, succinctness, and integration—was measured by learner differentiation of the two summary products. Production abi…
Inducing Use of a Text Lookback Strategy among Unsuccessful Readers
A text lookback strategy was taught to 12 remedial readers in three sessions. Readers were taught why to use lookbacks, when to use them, and where to use them with expository texts and accompanying questions. Five days after training was completed, the 12 subjects and 12 students in a control group were assessed for use of lookbacks and question-answering accuracy. Significant differences between training and control groups emerged both for perc…
Monitoring and Resolving Comprehension Obstacles
Ruth Garner, Ron Reis, Monitoring and Resolving Comprehension Obstacles: An Investigation of Spontaneous Text Lookbacks among Upper-Grade Good and Poor Comprehenders, Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 4 (1981), pp. 569-582
Externalizing Question-Answering Strategies of Good and Poor Comprehenders
THIRTY PAIRS of students (one sixth-grade tutor and one fourth-grade tutee in each pair) worked with an expository text and five questions following the text in the presence of an investigator. Under study were number of text lookbacks encouraged by tutors, differentiation of use of lookbacks for text-based versus reader-based questions, and appropriate text sampling. Good comprehender-poor comprehender tutor differences in strategic behavior enc…
Teacher Education on the Mall
Inducing Use of a Text Lookback Strategy among Unsuccessful Readers
A text lookback strategy was taught to 12 remedial readers in three sessions. Readers were taught why to use lookbacks, when to use them, and where to use them with expository texts and accompanying questions. Five days after training was completed, the 12 subjects and 12 students in a control group were assessed for use of lookbacks and question-answering accuracy. Significant differences between training and control groups emerged both for perc…
Multiple Measures of Text Summarization Proficiency
Given the existing literature on text summarization that documents what learners, particularly younger learners, cannot do, a study was designed to assess what fifth-grade students can do. Thirty students at two reading levels read an expository text, produced a summary, reflected on the summarizing process, and identified good and bad summaries for the text. Both successful and less successful readers were fairly adept at recognizing good summar…
Text Summarization Deficiencies Among Older Students
Two explanations for text summarization deficiencies among older learners were investigated. Forty students at each of three grade levels were asked to prepare optimal and nonoptimal short summaries for a written descriptive passage. Awareness of the importance of three aspects of successful summarization—inclusion of important ideas, succinctness, and integration—was measured by learner differentiation of the two summary products. Production abi…
Innovation in Teacher Education
Successful innovation in teacher educa tion depends upon resolving issues regarding four interrelated themes: identity, non-passivity, control, and cur riculum. The authors' examination of the first year and a half of an innovative mas ters-level program explores the specific development ofthese themes. For exam ple, faculty and prospective teachers began to establish an identity with teach ing and teacher education rather than with subject speci…
Cognition, Metacognition, and Reading
Interest and Learning from Text
Dewey (1913) suggested some time ago that trying to find out what is of interest to students is an important part of schooling; on the other hand, “making things interesting” is artificial and often unsuccessful. Two studies investigating the placement of interesting detail in a text about a physicist and his scientific work are reported here. In both studies, undergraduate students were asked to read the science text under a variety of condition…
Children's Use of New Technology for Picture-Taking
Photographs are often associated with children: People have children, they take pictures of them. We don't very often think about children as picture-takers, but our recent work has moved us in that direction. As part of an interest in children's use of new technology, we have studied children's picture-taking with new camera, computer, and Web technology. In this article, we discuss why and how children take pictures. We also discuss the issue o…
Digitizing Old Photographs for the Web
In the last few years, both small family photo collections and huge library and museum collections have been digitized and made available on the Web. In this article, we discuss reasons for digitizing. We describe an ongoing project in which children and adults in a technology-oriented after-school program in rural Michigan are digitizing photographs for a local historical society
Online images of industrialization in the American Midwest
Someone who doubts that photographs, like paintings and drawings, are an interpretation of the world might study the two historical photo collections discussed in this article. The views of industrialization could hardly be more dissimilar. Looking at both collections — photos and captions — is instructive
Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Mathematics education (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (4 works) · Reading comprehension (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)