Serial Position and Rated Importance in the Recall of Text.

Freebody, Peter; Anderson, Richard C.

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Publication Date: 1986

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Serial Position and Rated Importance in the Recall of Text.

Freebody, Peter; Anderson, Richard C.

Discourse Processes, v9 n1 p31-36 Jan-Mar 1986

Presents results of a study indicating that, over many propositions appearing in passages that vary widely in content and vocabulary difficulty, early and later propositions are better recalled, and that the rated importance of a proposition predicts probability of recall independent of serial position. (HTH)

Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Reading Research, Recall (Psychology)

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