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Download full textMory, Edna H.; And Others – 1991
A study tested the effects of timed versus untimed practice using text passages containing inserted adjunct questions. These effects were measured in terms of performance on repeated, related, and unrelated test questions. Subjects were 47 college students in Florida randomly assigned to one of two groups. One group was allowed a fixed amount of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Questioning Techniques, Reading Processes
Peer reviewedBensoussan, Marsha; Kreindler, Isabelle – Journal of Research in Reading, 1990
Examines whether the comprehension of English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) students who were trained to summarize improved more than that of students who responded to short-answer questions. Finds that since the reading comprehension of all classes improved significantly, the study could not prove that either approach was the major cause of this…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Decoding (Reading), English (Second Language), Higher Education
