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Radford, David L. – 1989
A model for developing instructional analogies was used to produce experimental treatments that included text from a high school biology textbook to which was added extended verbal analogies written by the researcher linking each of two biology concepts to analogous familiar concepts. The control treatment was text from the biology textbook…
Descriptors: Analogy, Biology, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation
Download full textDuchastel, Philippe – 1984
Organized in three sections, this report presents the first case study from a project aimed at developing prototypes of ideal textbook chapters. The report (1) discusses the Ideal Text Project, in which a number of researchers in instructional science have been challenged to design a textbook chapter that incorporates the design features they…
Descriptors: Biology, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Educational Psychology
