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Dinnel, Dale; Glover, John A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1985
Two experiments were conducted to examine the possibility that varying college students' methods of encoding advance organizers would influence the memorability of the organizers and subsequent reading materials. Results indicated that students dealing with the semantic base of organizers had significantly greater memory for the organizers and…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, College Students, Content Area Reading, Encoding (Psychology)

Nist, Sherrie L.; And Others – Reading Psychology, 1996
Studies influences of rereading and strategy use on college students' abilities to understand/remember text information, hypothesizing that those engaging in active strategy use should perform better than those who do not. Indicates no differences between groups on the recognition task, but finds differences on the recall task. Discusses time on…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Reading Processes
Osman-Jouchoux, Rionda – 1997
Writers often must summarize others' texts as part of their own work. To succeed at this, they must first read and understand new information and then transform that information to fulfill a specific purpose. Concept mapping, used as a visual organizing technique, can be an effective link between the two processes. In a preliminary study, students…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Higher Education, Information Processing, Instructional Effectiveness