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Furnam, John P. – 1975
The objectives of this study were to determine the effect post-adjunct questions exert on: learning from oral and written instruction, learning by high and low ability readers, and learning material which requires different levels of intellectual processing. No significant main effects occurred between question and no-question groups. Post-adjunct…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Individual Differences, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes

Kintsch, Walter; Kozminsky, Ely – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
College students either read or listened to tape-recorded stories, and immediately wrote a 60- to 80-word summary. A comparison of the readers' and the listeners' summaries revealed only minor differences; listeners included slightly more idiosyncratic detail. The processes underlying listening comprehension and skilled reading were similar.…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Learning Modalities

Readence, John E.; Moore, David W. – Psychology in the Schools, 1981
Overall findings of this meta-analysis reveal small effects of adjunct pictures on reading comprehension. No advantage was found when traditional v nontraditional text settings were compared. Line drawings seem to facilitate comprehension and color pictures seem to have a greater effect than black and white pictures. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Illustrations