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Text Processing: Effects of Summarization Frequency on Performance.

Spurlin, Joni E.; And Others – 1980

The effectiveness of different frequencies of summarization during studying and processing prose passages was compared. The 48 college students in the study were equally divided into a control group (normal study techniques), a frequent summarization group that created four noncumulative summaries at equally spaced intervals throughout the passage…

Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading

A Comparison of Performance on Cloze Tests, Group Reading Inventories and Standardized Reading Achievement in Grades Seven, Eight and Nine.

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Rakes, Thomas A.; McWilliams, Lana J. – 1979

A random sample of 300 seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students participated in a comparative study of performance on social studies cloze tests, social studies group reading inventories (GRI), and a popular standardized test (Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests, Survey E). It was found that cloze tests and GRIs constructed from social studies content…

Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Informal Reading Inventories