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Smith, Delia Gimenez-Cuervo – 1976
This study investigated the effect on learning of the interspersing of questions with sections of written discourse. A 5,200-word passage was divided into seven sections, from each of which several completion questions were derived. A pair of questions was inserted before, after, or both before and after the section. These questions also formed an…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Doctoral Dissertations, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Wagner, Barry Martin – 1976
A sample of 208 students from grades ten through twelve were randomly assigned to one of four groups in a study of the effects of multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and constructed modes of response to embedded questions on the learner's ability to answer application-type questions. The three experimental groups received five instructional…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Factual Reading, Learning Processes, Prose
Spiegel, Dixie Lee – 1976
This study investigated the effects of training in the use of advance organizers and interspersed questions on the comprehension and attitudes of good, average, and poor eighth-grade readers who were randomly assigned, by intact classroom units, to one of three treatment groups. The first treatment group received eight sessions of training in the…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Doctoral Dissertations, Factual Reading, Grade 8
