Dr. Alexandra List

Dr. List's work focuses on students' learning from multiple texts, such as when researching complex social issues (e.g., overpopulation, immigration) on the Internet. She is particularly interested in the higher-order cognitive processes involved, including students' critique and evaluation of online texts and synthesis writing based on multiple texts.

Learn more about Dr. List's work at thelostlab.org.

Recent Publications:

Critical Thinking About Texts:

• List, A. (2025). Integrating prior knowledge and multiple texts: expanding the Documents Model Framework.
• List, A., Campos Oaxaca, G. S., Du, H., Lee, H. Y., & Lyu, B. (2024). Critical culturalized comprehension: Exploring culture as learners thinking about texts.

Strategies for Critical Reading:

• List, A., & Du, H. (2024). Attendance to notable terms promotes narrative frame analysis when students read multiple expository texts.
• List, A., Russell, L. A., Yao, E. Z., Oaxaca, G. S. C., & Du, H. (2024). Critique generation promotes the critical reading of multiple texts.
• List, A., & Oaxaca, G. S. C. (2024). Comprehension and critique: an examination of students’ evaluations of information in texts.

Evidence-Based Reasoning:

• Du, H. & List, A. (2024). Evidence-based reasoning: results from an intervention.
• List, A. (2024). The limits of reasoning: Students' evaluations of anecdotal, descriptive, correlational, and causal evidence.

Hear About Dr. List's Work:

• Dr. List and her students discuss their work on how students develop conceptions of culture through texts: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00461520.2023.2266028
• Dr. List discusses her work examining the cognitive and affective factors impacting students' learning on the Internet: https://soundcloud.com/user-883650452/alex-list