Improving Selection and Organization Skills to Write a Synthesis: An Intervention Program

• In Event: 63.085 - Poster Session 13
  In Poster Session: 63.085-2 - Writing and Reading Processes and Outcomes

Abstract

Written synthesis is a powerful hybrid task for knowledge construction. However, students often have difficulties selecting relevant information from the sources, and organizing and connecting it to create their own text. A 14-session intervention program aimed at improving students’ ability to select, connect and organize relevant information from two complementary historical texts was design and implemented. We used a quasi-experimental pre-post design with 2nd-grade secondary education students from two classrooms in the same school (control condition: n = 16; experimental condition: n = 13). The results indicated a great effect of the intervention on the texts produced by students in the experimental group in terms of selection, connection and organization of the information from the sources.

Authors

• Esther Nadal, The University of Barcelona

• Núria Castells, The University of Barcelona

• Mariana Miras, The University of Barcelona