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Download full textEggen, Paul; Kauchak, Don – 1976
The effect of supplementary questions on learning from textual materials was investigated in a sample of 94 college juniors. Each subject was given a 1,500-word passage describing the concept of measurement. One treatment group was asked to identify characteristics of the concept; another was asked to identify examples from the text; a third…
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Bisanz, Gay L.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
A general theoretical framework for studying the representation of prose in memory is presented. The framework emphasizes the relational structure of story characters as determined by major story themes and provides for empirical consideration of author-reader communication. (SW)
Descriptors: Characterization, Language Processing, Language Research, Literature
Black, John B.; Bower, Gordon H. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
Memory representations of statements from a story were predicted to cluster into separate episode chunks in memory. It was shown that the recall of episode depends on the length of that episode, but not on the lengths of other episodes. The chunking idea was confirmed. (SW)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Memory, Prose
Baggett, Patricia – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
A technique was devised for constructing a text story which subjects agreed matched the dialogueless movie "The Red Balloon" in episodic structure. It relies partly on subjects judging where episodes and their components were located in the stories. Differences in content in movie and text recall are discussed. (SW)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Films, Language Research
Anderson, Dennis L.; Byers, Joe L. – 1971
Retroactive interference (RI) in prose learning was investigated in an experiment where passages were constructed on the basis of a predetermined logical structure. This structure made it possible to operationally define similarity and assess the effects of RI for inferential information as well as that stated directly in the original passage.…
Descriptors: College Students, Connected Discourse, Educational Research, Learning
Peer reviewedJohnson, Ronald E. – American Educational Research Journal, 1973
Research supported by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. (DS)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Educational Psychology, Language Proficiency, Language Skills
Graesser, Arthur C.; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
A schema-based framework for representing knowledge and prose organization was studied. Testing of a script pointer and tag hypothesis confirmed that memory discrimination is better for atypical actions in a passage than for typical script actions and that there is no memory discrimination for very typical actions. (SW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedReder, Lynne M. – Review of Educational Research, 1980
Recent research in the area of prose comprehension is reviewed, including factors that affect amount of recall, representations of text structures, and use of world knowledge to aid comprehension. The need for more information processing models of comprehension is emphasized. Elaboration is considered important for comprehension and retention.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Knowledge Level, Models, Prose
