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Effects of Language Facility in Learning.

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Dean, Raymond S.; Kulhavy, Raymond W. – American Educational Research Journal, 1978

The degree to which cognitive mediation interacts with vocabulary ability to influence the recall of different verbal units was investigated with a sample of 64 elementary school children. Results are interpreted with respect to the influence of vocabulary ability on school learning. (Author/JKS)

Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Language Ability, Learning Processes, Mediation Theory

Fieldwork in Geography and Long-term Memory Structures.

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Mackenzie, Andrew A.; White, Richard T. – American Educational Research Journal, 1982

Three treatments based on the model of memory proposed by R.M. Gagne and R.T. White were compared in their effects on eighth- and ninth-graders' learning and retention of geographical facts and skills. The first treatment had an active excursion, the second had a passive excursion, and the third had no excursion. (Author/PN)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Cognitive Processes, Field Trips