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Outline and Hierarchical Organization as Aids for Study and Retrieval
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Glynn, Shawn M.; Di Vesta, Francis J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
Subjects read a textual passage encompassing hierarchically related topics. A structural outline presented in advance of reading the text facilitated reproductive recall of facts. The recall of specific facts was superior to that of general facts, implying an experimental demand to be precise in learning and recalling specific factual material.…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, College Students, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Additive Effects From Interspersed Adjunct Questions In Prose Text.
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Sagaria, Sabato D.; Di Vesta, Francis J. – 1977
A total of 150 undergraduate students randomly assigned to five experimental groups studied ten paragraphs with questions interspersed at different locations in the text. Performance on incidental items was significantly lower (p < .05) in the question before (QB) than in the question after (QA), question before and after (QBA), and the…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Attention Control, College Students, Higher Education
Learner Expectations Induced by Adjunct Questions and the Retrieval of Intentional and Incidental Information
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Sagaria, Sabato D.; Di Vesta, Francis J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
One hundred-fifty subjects studied a passage with questions interspersed at different locations. Total level of acquisition was highest in treatments involving postquestions and no questions. The results were attributed to the influence of adjunct questions on learner expectations that affect the selective processing of information. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cues, Higher Education, Incidental Learning
Analogies (Adages) as Aids for Comprehending Structural Relations in Text.
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Moreno, Virginia; Di Vesta, Francis J. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1994
In 2 experiments involving a total of 43 college students, adages (relational metaphors) were found to facilitate processing of general ideas and higher-order principles. The higher the degree of structural relations embedded in the titles of passages, the greater the recall and accessibility of system-related ideas. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Additive Effects of Pre- and Post-Adjunct Questions in Prose Text.
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Sagaria, Sabato D.; Di Vesta, Francis J. – 1978
The relationship between placement of adjunct questions in instructional material and incidental and intentional learning was investigated. A total of 150 undergraduate students assigned to five experimental groups studied ten paragraphs with questions interspersed at different locations in the text. Performance on incidental items was…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Attention, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading