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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
Eignor, Daniel R. – 1985
The feasibility of pre-equating, or establishing conversions from raw to scaled scores through the use of pretest data before operationally administering a test, was investigated for the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Item-response theory based equating methods were used to estimate item parameters on SAT pretest data, instead of using final form…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Equated Scores, Estimation (Mathematics), Feasibility Studies
