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Download full textDurham, Gigi – 1994
This paper proposes a systematic method of measuring subjects' free recall from printed hard news stories, based on schema theories of cognition. Citing literature that demonstrates the role of text structures and text schemas in the recall of written text, the paper suggests incorporating these processes into the assessment of recall of news. In…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Media Research, News Writing
