Reading comprehension and learning strategies in Psychology students

• Autor(a) principal: SANTOS, Acácia Aparecida Angeli dos
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Outros Autores: VENDRAMINI, Claudette Maria Medeiros, SUEHIRO, Adriana Cristina Boulhoça, SANTOS, Ligia Angeli Dias dos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/estpsi/article/view/6780
• topic: Compreensão de leitura; Desempenho acadêmico; Teste de Cloze; reading comprehension; academic achievement; Cloze testing

This study has aimed the comparison of reading comprehension levels and learning strategies used for overcoming eventual problemsamong Psychology students; as well as it verified the students’ real comprehension difficulties to answer the cloze test. 178 universitystudents (113 from the 1st year and 65 from the 4th year) participated in this study. The procedure was applied in one single session andconsisted by : (a) reading of the area scientific text; (b) questions about the realized difficulties and the used strategies to overcomethe problem; and (c) the Cloze testing application , using a text similar to the first one, in order to evaluate reading comprehension. Asignificant statistical difference has been observed about the reading comprehension level , as the 4th year students have presenteda better performance, compared to the students from the 1st year. The 4th year students acknowledged a greater difficulty inunderstanding the first text, although the difference between the two groups was not significant. The difficulty kinds and the strategiesused by the students pointed out, qualitative differences between these groups.