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Peer reviewedMayer, Richard E. – Science Education, 1983
Discusses five instructional strategies for increasing the meaningfulness of technical or scientific information. These include organization of prose, use of concrete analogies as advance organizers, use of inserted questions in prose, elaboration activities such as note-taking and discovery learning. (JN)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, College Science, Discovery Learning
