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Andre, Thomas; Womack, Sandra – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
College students read passages and answered either verbatim or parphrased adjunct questions either inserted in the text or massed at the end of the passage. Passage review was varied. On the post-test containing unfamiliar paraphrased questions, students given inserted paraphrased adjunct questions outperformed the others. Paraphrased questions…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Processes, Prose, Questioning Techniques
Andre, Thomas; And Others – 1978
In three experiments subjects (college and high school students) read passages which described psychological principles and answered either adjunct application or factual questions while reading. Questions were presented either before, after, or both before and after the parts of the passage that answered the questions. Subsequently subjects took…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, High Schools, Higher Education