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Masterson, Jackie; Hayes, Maureen – Journal of Research in Reading, 2007
Author and book title recognition tests have been used extensively in reading-related research with both children and adults. The present paper reports the development of a book title and author recognition test and data from a UK sample of adults. Higher scores were obtained on the Author test than on the Title test. It is suggested that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Programs, Adult Learning, Recognition (Psychology)
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Pressley, Michael; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1988
Elaborative interrogation was compared to the construction of imaginary representations to determine its efficacy in fact learning. Four experiments, involving a total of 260 undergraduate students, indicated that elaborative interrogation is equally as powerful a learning procedure as is imaginary representation and that both are useful during…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Associative Learning, Foreign Countries, Higher Education