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Download full textSagaria, Sabato D.; Di Vesta, Francis J. – 1978
The relationship between placement of adjunct questions in instructional material and incidental and intentional learning was investigated. A total of 150 undergraduate students assigned to five experimental groups studied ten paragraphs with questions interspersed at different locations in the text. Performance on incidental items was…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Attention, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading
Lewis, Jed – 1978
Four text passages varying along the dimensions of the number of propositions unifying one or more text paragraphs and text length were constructed. The text content pertained to nine concepts in the area of operant conditioning psychology. Fifty-eight university students were pretested and then blocked on prior text-related knowledge, and read…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Concept Formation, Content Analysis, Content Area Reading
Tobias, Sigmund – 1978
Aptitude-treatment interaction research is reviewed, with particular emphasis on the interaction of achievement and instructional method. Previous research has suggested that students with lower prior achievement require maximal instructional support. Recent research on this relationship is reviewed, as well as the relationship between…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Processes
