The effects of relevant active questions, those which subjects can put alongside answers, are investigated and compared with those of active and provided questions, over a series of six presentations for both short- and long-term (ten month) situations for subjects of high and low reading ability in the intermediate grades. (RAO)

A look at an experiment using prose in which questions are categorized as 1) active; or 2) passive. (HB)

Evaluated contributions of age, presentation modality, task demand, and content structure to prose recall variation among adults. Tested 60 young and 60 older adults for recall of ideas in 641-word prose passage. Found recall for total number of idea units was significantly lower for older participants and for auditory presentation across both age…

The purpose of this study was threefold: to determine whether adding a mnemonic to systematically designed instruction would improve verbal retention, to establish whether retention is better for concrete or abstract information, and to determine whether mental imagery or verbal elaboration is more effective for learning concrete or abstract…