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Sequence Effects and Reading Time in Programmed Learning
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Dyer, James W.; Kulhavy, Raymond W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
Descriptors: Course Organization, Instructional Design, Programed Instruction, Sequential Approach
Instructional Texts Rewritten by Five Expert Teams: Revisions and Retention Improvements.
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Britton, Bruce K.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1989
Efficacious features claimed by experts who had rewritten texts were evaluated in 3 experiments involving 700 undergraduates and 52 instructional texts about Army job tasks. Some experts evidently had effective knowledge about improving text, but it was primarily procedural. (SLD)
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Materials
Using Kintsch's Computational Model to Improve Instructional Text: Effects of Repairing Inference Calls on Recall and Cognitive Structures.
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Britton, Bruce K.; Gulgoz, Sami – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991
Principles of W. Kintsch's reading comprehension model (1978, 1980) were used to revise an expository text. Two experiments with 170 undergraduates and 125 Air Force recruits indicated that the principled revision conveyed the author's intentions better than the original text, suggesting the model's use for text improvement. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Authors, Cognitive Structures, Expository Writing
The Role of Rewording and Context Personalization in the Solving of Mathematical Word Problems.
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Davis-Dorsey, Judy; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991
The impact of personalizing mathematical word problems and rewording them for explicitness was tested with 68 second and 59 fifth graders. Second graders benefited from personalization and rewording in combination; fifth graders benefited from personalization, not rewording. Personalization makes problems more motivating and easier to represent…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Adaptive Testing, Age Differences, Comparative Testing