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Smith, Delia Gimenez-Cuervo – 1976
This study investigated the effect on learning of the interspersing of questions with sections of written discourse. A 5,200-word passage was divided into seven sections, from each of which several completion questions were derived. A pair of questions was inserted before, after, or both before and after the section. These questions also formed an…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Doctoral Dissertations, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Prescott, Peggy-Lynn – 1976
The effects of visual, and verbal/visual, preorganizers and postorganizers on the learning of unfamiliar information were evaluated in an experimental study involving 153 community college students. Pre- and postorganizers were used in connection with a 20-minute lesson on the theory of communication. A 25-item, multiple-choice criterion test was…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations, Learning Processes
