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Ruch, Michael D.; Levin, Joel R. – AV Communication Review, 1977
Partial pictures facilitated performance when presented with verbal information, but not when presented with the test questions. Sentence repetition facilitated performance only on questions presumed to reflect relatively shallow information processing. (Author/STS)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Information Processing, Redundancy, Verbal Learning
Peer reviewedLevin, Joel R.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1978
Children listened to sentences under two instructional sets (imagery or repetition) and answered multiple choice alternatives--either identical or similar in meaning to correct information in the sentences; and including or not including previously presented irrelevant information. The sources of interference predicted from recognition memory…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Learning Theories, Memory, Multiple Choice Tests
Peer reviewedBender, Bruce G.; Levin, Joel R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
Four groups of 10- to 16-year-old educable mental retardates listened to a 20-sentence story; subjects (1) viewed pictures; (2) generated mental pictures; (3) heard each sentence twice; or (4) listened to the story once. Recall of story information was highest for those who viewed pictures. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Learning Activities, Listening Comprehension, Mild Mental Retardation
