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Children's Learning from Discourse: Advance Organizer, Text Sequence, and Arousal Effects on Literal and Inferential Comprehension. Technical Report No. 265.

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Farley, Frank H. – 1972

The effects of arousal on literal and inferential comprehension of text over short- and long-term retention intervals were studied using 369 elementary school children. Putative arousal manipulations were of two types: expectation and deviations from expectation as established by an advance organizer followed by text that for different…

Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Behavior Patterns, Educational Research, Elementary Education

Reading Achievement: Characteristics Associated with Success and Failure: Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations Published in "Dissertation Abstracts International," January through March 1978 (Vol. 38 Nos. 7 through 9). Part Two.

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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 13 titles deal with the following topics: the role of visual pattern perception in the development of children's reading skills; a comparison of students' silent reading, oral reading, and listening comprehension; semantic…

Descriptors: Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Behavior Patterns, College Freshmen