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Download full textPodszebka, Darcy; Conklin, Candee; Apple, Mary; Windus, Amy – 1998
A study investigated the effect of video and narrative presentations on children's comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. Participants were students in four heterogeneously grouped eighth-grade English classes (n=16, 22, 21, and 11) in a rural school district in southwestern New York. The short story selected was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Critical Thinking, Grade 8, Instructional Effectiveness
