"In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety-Two, Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue" [electronic resource] : Effects of Multiple Document Readings on Student Attitudes and Misconceptions. Reading Research Report No. 82 / Steven A. Stahl and Others.

To examine the effects of students reading multiple documents on their perceptions of a historical event, in this case the "discovery" of America by Christopher Columbus, 85 high school freshmen read 3 of 4 different texts (or sets of texts) dealing with Columbus. One text was an encyclope...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Stahl, Steven A.
Corporate Author:	National Reading Research Center (U.S.)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1997.
Subjects:	Critical Reading. High School Freshmen. High Schools. History Instruction. Misconceptions. Periodicals. Reading Research. Student Attitudes. Text Structure.