Do you know what you are reading for? Exploring the effects of a task model enhancement on fifth graders' purposeful reading

Background Drawing on theories of purposeful reading, this study explored task conditions that support fifth graders' selective reading of documents in order to answer questions. More specifically, we investigated whether promoting students' elaboration of their task model increases task performance. Methods Participants had to answer series of questions by searching documents for the relevant information. Half the participants received a task...