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Rickards, John P. – Educational Technology, 1980
Reviews four aids to reading: notetaking, underlining, inserted questions, and organizers in text. For each method, investigations on the key variables are discussed and generalizations from the literature are drawn. (AO)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Reading Improvement, Research Reports, Study Skills
Peer reviewedMcCormick, Christine B.; Rickards, John P. – Journal of Educational Research, 1977
College students who read material with advance organizers presented either before the passage or interspersed in the text did not recall significantly more information than did a control group presented with the text only. (MM)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, College Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Peer reviewedRickards, John P.; Denner, Peter R. – Instructional Science, 1979
Investigates the impact of underlining and adjunct questioning in text recall for fifth grade students. Results suggest that for 10 year-old readers adjunct post questions and underlining may hinder performance. (RAO)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Comprehension, Cues, Grade 5
Peer reviewedRickards, John P. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1975
Advanced organizers produced two distinct effects--subsumption of related material and abstraction of incidental concepts. (RB)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education
