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Peer reviewedWilhite, Stephen C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
The effects of prepassage questions quizzing information of different structural importance on college students' memory for expository prose passages were compared. Results indicated that questions which direct the subjects' attention to material at the top of the organizational structure facilitate the effective encoding of the central…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Context Clues
