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Direct linkSurber, John R.; Schroeder, Mark – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2007
College students with either high or low prior domain knowledge (PK) read a text chapter presented in short pages on a computer monitor. Half of the participants read with headings present and half with headings absent. The computer recorded time spent reading and rereading each short page. Learning was assessed through a structured recall task.…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Computer Uses in Education, Recall (Psychology), College Students
Peer reviewedBirkmire, Deborah P. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1985
Describes an experiment that explored the relationships between text structure, prior knowledge, and reader's purpose on the processing of text and memory for text information. Results demonstrated that the strategies used to read text are flexible. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, College Students, Higher Education, Memory
