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Gagne, 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