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Peer reviewedLorch, Robert F., Jr.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1993
Two experiments involving 285 college students investigated effects of signaling devices (headings, overviews, and summaries) on text memory. Signals produced recalls better organized by text topics. Results support a model in which signals influence readers' representations of a text's topic structure, which in turn guides recall of text content.…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Models, Reader Text Relationship
Peer reviewedRossi, Jean Pierre – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
One hundred French children in grade five participated in an experiment to determine how the problem frame facilitates comprehension of a problem solution text. Results demonstrate the positive role of frames in macrostructure construction and support the model of T. A. van Dijk and W. Kintsch (1983). (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
