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Peer reviewedBlick, Kenneth A.; Waite, Carole J. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, College Students, Individual Differences, Learning Activities
Download full textGuthrie, John T. – 1971
The effects of immediate and delayed feedback on perseverance and learning were investigated with a 3 x 3 factorial design. It was hypothesized that delayed feedback would reduce perseverance while immediate feedback would increase it. Subjects were 72 male college students, paid for participation. They read prose sentences and completed cloze…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cloze Procedure, College Students, Feedback
Peer reviewedKane, Janet Hidde; Anderson, Richard C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
In two experiments, undergraduates who completed the last words of sentences they read learned more than subjects who simply read whole sentences. This facilitation was observed even with a list of sentences that were almost always completed with the wrong words. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Higher Education, Language Processing, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedWeener, Paul – Instructional Science, 1974
Note taking and verbalization are considered as instrumental student activities which influence the relationship between the learning task and the learning outcomes. Alternative theoretical explanations for the effects of note taking and verbalization are discussed, and a structure for future research on these topics is provided. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Learning Activities, Learning Processes, Retention (Psychology)
Di Vesta, Francis J.; And Others – 1971
The instructional process has four major components: stimulation, orientation, transformation, and instrumental activity. Concerning stimulation, the instructor should highlight either the novelty or the complexity of the learning materials. Varying such factors as teaching style and mode of presentation, duration of instruction, and the learner's…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Goal Orientation, Instruction, Learning Activities
Johnson, Ronald E. – 1970
A series of seven experiments provided information on the relationship between the learning of prose and the structural importance of the linguistic subunits. Five samples of prose, including narrative folktales and two samples of textual prose, were studied to determine whether the patterning of learning corresponded to the structural importance…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Experiments, Fiction
ROHWER, WILLIAM D., JR. – 1967
THE REPORT DESCRIBES 13 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF LEARNING IN CHILDREN BETWEEN FOUR AND 12 YEARS OF AGE. THE EXPERIMENTS CONCERN--(1) THE ISOLATION CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH ELABORATIVE FACILITATION OF LEARNING OCCURS, AND (2) THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ELABORATION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN LEARNING PROFICIENCY. BECAUSE CHILDREN LEARN NOUN PAIRS AND…
Descriptors: Age, Children, Experiments, Intelligence
