Abstract

SOARES, Adriana Benevides; EMMERICK, Thamires de Abreu  and  VICENTE, Aline Lacerda. Evaluation of levels of texts understanding in university students. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2010, vol.10, n.3, pp. 818-832. ISSN 1808-4281.

This study aimed to identify and compare the difficulties and differences in the understanding level of texts by academics. In the research, 312 students participated, from courses in different areas of knowledge, from public and private universities. Two inquiries were submitted, one of socio-demographic data and the other with free questions concerning a text. The inquiry was certified and presented Alpha Crombach of 0.696. The main findings were that the greatest number of correct answers occurred on questions relating to the subject of the text (62.18%), followed by questions about Details (56.97%), then by questions about the text’s reasoning (46.58 %) and on the inferences (40.06%). It was observed that the best performance of the students were in the "Macrostructure" level and that they are more efficient when belonging to higher social classes (x = 70.00; p = 0.060) and attend courses that demand higher scores for admission (U = 392,500; p = 0,098).

Keywords : Textunderstanding; Students; Social class; University course.

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