An experiment with 356 navy recruits compared the effects on reading retention of adjunct (interspersed) questions generated by four different procedures: human linguistic processing, the AUTOQUEST computer program, and two types of cloze algorithms. Results showed that cloze questions interfered with retention and that direct improvement effects…

After a discussion of the confused terminology, overlapping categories, and ambiguity evident in categorization of comprehension questions in current reading series and in the literature on comprehension, a comprehensive classification scheme is proposed that seeks to avoid these problems. The proposed classification scheme has three orthogonal…

This study involved the use of interspersed questions as an instructional procedure to aid improvement in reading efficiency. Subjects, 86 college students enrolled in an undergraduate course in methods for teaching secondary reading, practiced (five times) reading nonfiction narrative selections, trying to increase their reading speed. The…

This study investigated the effect on learning of the interspersing of questions with sections of written discourse. A 5,200-word passage was divided into seven sections, from each of which several completion questions were derived. A pair of questions was inserted before, after, or both before and after the section. These questions also formed an…

This book is designed to help Peace Corps volunteers continue to learn a language in the absence of a trained teacher. It consists of techniques intended to help volunteers build upon their daily contact with native informants. Seventeen techniques are presented, each consisting of a subject, objectives, technique, and procedures. The material…

Basic mathemagenic concepts were tested under instructional conditions. Research areas of interest were the effect of two different types of adjunct questions and adjunct question positions on problem solving ability on prose materials. (Author/DEP)

An obvious source of information for assessing mental health program effectiveness comes from clients who have received the services and, indeed, much effort has been devoted to developing data collection instruments which are administered to clients upon completion of treatment. To assess the advantages and disadvantages of three treatment…

A series of classroom practices and techniques are provided to help classroom teachers overcome their anxiety in teaching science. Chapter 1 (Fearing the Unknown) focuses on reasons for teaching science in elementary grades, science processes, characteristics of inquiry, questioning and inquiry, and using small groups. Chapter 2 (Managing…

The specific concern in this study is to consider the nature, social significance, and consequences of syntactic variation in the question forms used by judges when taking guilty pleas from criminal defendents. Nine judges from a court of general jurisdiction in Arizona were observed and tape-recorded while presiding over several procedures that…

This report presents an overview of a two-day workshop designed to introduce librarians, research assistants, and other participants in the Tennessee State Department of Education's Project Support to computer search applications and search negotiation skills. Objectives included a demonstrable mastery of search negotiation technique, a working…

A recent study found that "mentioning," or saying just enough about a topic to allow for an assignment related to it, had supplanted instruction in reading comprehension in grades three through six. As a replacement to "mentioning," a "preteaching" unit has been developed that concentrates on development of textbook…

An analysis of classroom discourse is reported in which the use of questions by science teachers is assessed in terms of arguments to establish knowledge claims. Questions are analyzed not for their form or frequency but for their function in the development of arguments which establish claims rationally. Seen in the context of rational argument,…

This study to identify the verbal behaviors of librarians and library users that facilitate or impede information exchange in presearch interviews for computer-based literature searches was part of a larger research project that gathered data on 80 presearch interviews in seven medical libraries. The project also sought (1) to identify nonverbal…