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Download full textSinnott, Loraine T.; Alderman, Donald L. – 1977
This report concerns the effects of prequestion and postquestion formats in prose learning in computer-assisted instruction. Five experimental groups studied a set of eight passages under different prequestion-postquestion combinations. Twenty-five subjects, volunteers with high school degrees, were randomly assigned to each group. A final…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Learning Processes, Pretesting, Pretests Posttests
Peer reviewedAdejumo, Dayo – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1983
The effect of cognitive style on the performance of four groups of college students (n=326) who used different strategies of study to comprehend prose was investigated. The cognitive styles of the subjects (field dependence/independence) interacted with the strategies of study and seem to affect performance on comprehension of prose at posttest.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Interaction, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedAndre, Thomas – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1981
College students read prose passages and answered either verbatim or paraphrased inserted questions while reading under review or no review conditions. On a posttest students who received paraphrased questions outperformed students who received verbatim questions. This result supported the contention that paraphrased adjunct questions could…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Memory
