The Influence of Author Visibility on High School Students Solving a Historical Problem

By Richard J. Paxton. 2002

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Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction (2011, background): “Thus, children were taught to move based on elite, adult movement models rather than developmentally appropriate patterns such as those that Roberton (1982) described.”
Spontaneous Sourcing Among Students Reading Multiple Documents (2013, background): “As demonstrated in other studies (Nolen, 1995; Paxton, 2002), sourcing does not necessarily rely on explicit source information but may still affect the reader’s processing of documents.”
Beyond Reading Comprehension and Summary: Learning to Read and Write in History by Focusing on Evidence, Perspective, and Interpretation (2011, background): “Paxton (2002) found that historical texts with “visible authors” (primary documents or historians’ monographs in which an authorial voice was clearly present) increased the chances that students would interact with the texts as they read.”