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Blohm, Paul J. – Reading Psychology, 1986
Investigates the effects of structural cueing (color or no color) and decision level (rote or semantic) on students' verbatim retention of technical prose and concludes that the results support the distinctiveness of encoding hypothesis for learning via the microcomputer. (DF)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Prompting

Freebody, Peter; Cooksey, Ray W. – Reading Psychology, 1985
Describes a computer-based methodology that obtains simple timed responses to sets of words and word-like nonsense items, then presents pilot data depicting estimated vocabulary knowledge and relating it to word frequency and decision response time. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques
Tobias, Sigmund – 1985
A study was conducted to examine the effects of prescribing the use of some specific reading strategies on comprehension. The effects of such prescription on the interactions among instructional method and a number of individual difference variables were also investigated. Subjects were 140 high school students randomly assigned to read a text…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Microcomputers, Prior Learning