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Peer reviewedChristopherson, Steven L. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1978
Provides further evidence of the psychological importance of semantic roles for verbal learning and broadens the realm of earlier work with semantic roles by using connected prose rather than individual sentences. (HOD)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Prose, Reading Processes, Reading Research
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
Ghatala, Elizabeth S.; And Others – 1977
An analysis was performed of multiple-choice tests in terms of the frequency theory of recognition memory. High and low ability children listened to sentences under different instructional sets (imagery rating and sentence repetition) and were later tested with multiple-choice alternatives: (1) either identical or similar in meaning to the…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Intermediate Grades, Learning Processes, Multiple Choice Tests
