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Peer reviewedDurso, Francis T.; Coggins, Kathy A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991
Performance on a battery of tests of vocabulary words by 72 college students was compared as a function of whether the prior instruction involved presenting material in an organized or scrambled fashion. Organizing vocabulary words during study facilitated performance in categorizing, processing for understanding, or producing a word. (SLD)
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