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Gillingham, Mark G. – 1992
A study examined what happened when a group of adult students read a hypertext for the goal of answering specific questions. Subjects, 30 students enrolled in an upper-division psychology course at a state university in the northwestern United States, read a binary tree-structured hypertext to answer three two-part questions on the topic of…
Descriptors: Adults, Higher Education, Hypermedia, Reading Comprehension
Download full textLott, Pam – 1994
A study investigated whether informational graphics help attract the reader to a newspaper story, prolong reader interaction, and increase reader knowledge. Five versions of a small informational graphic and a related 10-inch non-lead story published on the bottom of a newspaper page were tested on 300 participants (a non-probability sample of…
Descriptors: Adults, Color, Higher Education, Illustrations
Marcinkiewicz, Henryk R.; Clariana, Roy B. – 1997
This study extends earlier research on headings use in undergraduate testing, and examined whether headings within multiple-choice tests positively impact test performance. Participants were employees (n=143) of a large manufacturing plant in the western United States. The experimental group received a multiple-choice recertification test with…
Descriptors: Adults, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
