Studying Narrative Text: The Effects of Annotating vs. Journal Writing on Test Performance.

Hynd, Cynthia R.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1990

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Studying Narrative Text: The Effects of Annotating vs. Journal Writing on Test Performance.

Hynd, Cynthia R.; And Others

Reading Research and Instruction, v29 n2 p44-54 Win 1990

Measures the effects of training students to make annotations vs. training them in journal writing, as preparation for objective and essay tests on novels. Finds annotations more effective for objective test items but not for essays. Finds that writing inferential annotations appeared to be correlated with answering inferential questions correctly. (SR)

Descriptors: Essay Tests, Higher Education, Journal Writing, Learning Strategies, Notetaking, Objective Tests, Reading Research, Study Skills

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