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Peer reviewedGagne, Ellen D.; Britton, Bruce K. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1982
An experiment was conducted to examine how objectives influence organization of information recalled from text. Objectives were hypothesized to affect sequence of attention, rehearsal during a review period, and to serve as retrieval cues. Results indicated that organization by objectives occurs during rehearsal but not encoding or retrieval…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experimental Groups, Higher Education, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedGrabe, Mark – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1981
Two experiments related inspection speed to text relevance. While specific goals or questions produced variable inspection speeds, a general purpose in reading did not. Text information related to reading goals was more likely to be retained. Results are explained in terms of storage demands imposed by each category of reading goal. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Higher Education, Prose, Reading Instruction
