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Apthorp, Helen; Clark, Tedra – Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2007
The evidence indicates that peer-assisted learning can have a substantively important positive effect on struggling high school students' reading comprehension. Reservations remain about attributing improved comprehension to peer-assisted learning because the students were not randomly assigned to the intervention in the one study that met…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Disabilities, Intentional Learning, Secondary School Teachers
Hayes, David A.; Alvermann, Donna E. – Forum for Reading, 1984
A cyclical plan for studying that takes into account information processing strategies and their effective management by students consists of (1) specifying study purposes, (2) previewing the materials, (3) proceeding through the task incrementally, and (4) connecting the content to be learned to other knowledge about the material studied. Setting…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Intentional Learning