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Stroessner, Steven J.; Beckerman, Laurie Susser; Whittaker, Alexis – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
Reacting to the Past is a pedagogy involving collaborative role playing in history-based games over a semester. This article presents results from a systematic assessment of this novel pedagogy conducted in 3 phases following student focus group interviews. Interviews indicated that the method was generally popular compared with traditional…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, Writing Skills
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Collins-Eiland, Karen; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1986
To evaluate the effects of conversational noise on the comprehension/retention of 2000-word text excerpts, two groups were randomly formed. Group I (n=20) studied under noise conditions and Group 2 (n=24) studied under nonnoise conditions. Overall ANCOVAs indicated no significant differences between groups but identifiable subgroups showed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Field Dependence Independence, Higher Education