Disruptive promise : the links intervention and its impact on multiple, multimodal, Internet text integration

"This dissertation study presents an instructional intervention called LINKS: Learning to Integrate InterNet Knowledge Strategically. It reports evidence of the intervention's impact on two variables: (a) ninth graders' use of ten online reading and integration strategies while engaged in dyadic online inquiry on science topics in school, and (b) evidence of integration from multiple, multimodal Internet texts in their written persuasive arguments. Dyads (n = 8) were randomly assigned to treatment and control conditions... " -- Abstract.