Textual Organization, Advance Organizers and the Retention of Prose Material.

And Others; Schumacher, Gary M.

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ERIC Number: EJ122448

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Publication Date: 1975

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Textual Organization, Advance Organizers and the Retention of Prose Material

And Others; Schumacher, Gary M.

Journal of Reading Behavior, 7, 2, 173-80, Sum 75

Contrary to expectation, subjects given a passage with neither paragraph cues nor an advance organizer recalled better than subjects given paragraph cues but no advance organizer. (RB)

Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Higher Education, Prose, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Reading Skills, Recall (Psychology), Retention (Psychology)

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