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Download full textChezik, Mary Ann; Dwyer, Francis M. – 1982
The effects of intervening synthesis/review sheets, periodic practice worksheets, a combination of review and practice, and an advance organizer on learning from prose text were investigated. Using 161 college students as subjects, the study increasingly added learner activities to an instructional unit (Lamberski's revised edition of the Dwyer…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, College Students, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
Rieber, Lloyd P.; Hannafin, Michael J. – 1987
A study was carried out at Pennsylvania State University to examine the effects of both textual and computer animated orienting activities--i.e., mediators through which new information is presented to the learner--and practice on the application and problem solving skills of elementary school students. It was hypothesized that students provided…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Animation, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction
