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Specifying the Nature of Reading Ability Differences and Advance Organizer Effects.

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Tyler, Sherman W.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983

Individual differences and the role of advance organizers in reading comprehension were examined. Subjects read short passages sometimes preceded by a given type of advance organizer. Good readers showed greater recall of detail given either type of advance organizer; poor readers displayed enhanced recall of detail only for a particular type of…

Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Classification, Cognitive Structures, Higher Education

Using Kintsch's Computational Model to Improve Instructional Text: Effects of Repairing Inference Calls on Recall and Cognitive Structures.

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Britton, Bruce K.; Gulgoz, Sami – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991

Principles of W. Kintsch's reading comprehension model (1978, 1980) were used to revise an expository text. Two experiments with 170 undergraduates and 125 Air Force recruits indicated that the principled revision conveyed the author's intentions better than the original text, suggesting the model's use for text improvement. (SLD)

Descriptors: Adults, Authors, Cognitive Structures, Expository Writing