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Hartley, J.; Trueman, M. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
Nine experiments involving fourth-year British comprehensive school pupils revealed that (1) text headings aided information recall, search, and retrieval from texts; (2) the position of the heading (marginal or embedded) had no effect; and (3) the kind of heading (question or statement) had no differential effects on readers of different ability.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Recall (Psychology)