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Peer reviewedCook, Linda K.; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1988
Teaching college students to discriminate among and use text structures found in scientific text material was studied, using 32 undergraduate and 28 junior college students. Students can learn to become more effective processors of scientific text through acquiring active reading strategies based on domain specific knowledge. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Science, College Students, Instructional Materials, Postsecondary Education
