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Perfetti, Charles A.; Goldman, Susan R. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
A study is reported in which short-term memory capacity, estimated by a probe digit task, and memory for structured language, measured by a probe discourse task, were investigated in an experiment with third and fifth grade IQ-matched children representing two levels of reading comprehension skill. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Learning Processes, Memory
Hasher, Lynn; Chromiak, Walter – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
Aspects of the processing of frequency information were investigated in two studies. The first showed that second graders were as prepared to process frequency differences as adults. The second showed that practice at frequency counting does not improve the performance of young adults and neither does feedback regarding earlier performance.…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Language Processing
