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Download full textWoods, Alice; Andre, Thomas – 1978
The effects of level of adjunct question (factual, application) and type of feedback (no feedback, correct answer feedback, self-correction feedback) on learning concepts from prose were examined in a study of 135 volunteer undergraduates at Iowa State University. Adjunct application questions produce better performance on subsequent new…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Instruction, College Students, Concept Teaching
Peer reviewedRoyer, James M.; Perkins, Marcy R. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1977
Discusses a study to determine whether the facilitative transfer of knowledge from one prose passage to a second prose passage would occur over a time interval. (JM)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Prose
Peer reviewedJensen, Larry; And Others – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Context Clues, Inhibition
Spiro, Rand J. – 1975
A reconstructive approach to memory for connected discourse is contrasted with orientations that emphasize passive reproduction. Conditions under which reconstructive errors in recall should occur are specified. Most conventional experiments do not satisfy the conditions. In an experiment involving 360 college students, subjects were induced not…
Descriptors: College Students, Connected Discourse, Context Clues, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedFuqua, Robert W.; Phye, Gary D. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1978
The effects of a prose passage's physical structure and semantic organization upon free recall performance was investigated. Passages, describing characteristics of fictitious countries, contained either five or nine paragraphs of varying lengths. Differences in the distribution of materials interacted with type of semantic organization to produce…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Language Patterns, Learning Processes
Sagaria, Sabato D.; Di Vesta, Francis J. – 1977
A total of 150 undergraduate students randomly assigned to five experimental groups studied ten paragraphs with questions interspersed at different locations in the text. Performance on incidental items was significantly lower (p < .05) in the question before (QB) than in the question after (QA), question before and after (QBA), and the…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Attention Control, College Students, Higher Education
Eggen, Paul; Kauchak, Don – 1976
The effect of supplementary questions on learning from textual materials was investigated in a sample of 94 college juniors. Each subject was given a 1,500-word passage describing the concept of measurement. One treatment group was asked to identify characteristics of the concept; another was asked to identify examples from the text; a third…
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Felker, Daniel B. – 1974
This study extended concepts derived from Rothkopf's mathemagenic hypothesis to problem solving. While previous mathemagenic research has established that adjunct questions interspersed with written prose facilitates learning, it has been criticized as educationally nonsignificant because the research has focused on verbatim learning. To test…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Learning Processes, Problem Solving
Anderson, Dennis L.; Byers, Joe L. – 1971
Retroactive interference (RI) in prose learning was investigated in an experiment where passages were constructed on the basis of a predetermined logical structure. This structure made it possible to operationally define similarity and assess the effects of RI for inferential information as well as that stated directly in the original passage.…
Descriptors: College Students, Connected Discourse, Educational Research, Learning
Anderson, Richard C.; And Others – 1977
Subjects read narratives about a meal at a fine restaurant or a trip to a supermarket. The same 18 items of food, attributed to the same characters, were mentioned in the same order in the two stories. As predicted from current formulations of schema theory, foods from categories determined to be part of most people's restaurant schemata were…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Connected Discourse
Peer reviewedGaite, A. J. H.; Newsom, R. S. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Adejumo, Dayo – 1976
The effect of using multiple-choice questions as review aids was investigated in four groups of college students. One group generated multiple-choice questions and used them as review aids, while the second group (the "yoked" group) used the questions generated by the first group. The third group used the experimenter's questions, and…
Descriptors: College Students, Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Johnson, Ronald E. – 1970
A series of seven experiments provided information on the relationship between the learning of prose and the structural importance of the linguistic subunits. Five samples of prose, including narrative folktales and two samples of textual prose, were studied to determine whether the patterning of learning corresponded to the structural importance…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Experiments, Fiction
