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Gilbert, Laurence C. – 1986
Fifty-four high aptitude undergraduates and 46 moderate-to-low aptitude undergraduates were divided into four treatment groups and were given a pretest during which they learned and recalled a map of a small town in five successive trials. Two weeks later, each group was given a different treatment with a varying degree of explicitness of…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Advance Organizers, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Processes
Download full textRisko, Victoria J.; Alvarez, Marino C. – 1982
Because thematic statements are too global to aid poor readers in comprehending texts, a series of studies using a common procedure was conducted to determine the relationship between teaching thematic concepts prior to reading and reading comprehension. The thematic organizers used in the studies contained three paragraphs that defined the…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Ability
Carroll, John B. – 1976
In three immediately succeeding trials, 45 young adults named 50 pictures of objects as rapidly as possible; word retrieval latencies were measured for each item. Before each trial, one experimental group was given information as to the word frequency (WF) level of the items' names. The other experimental group was given information as to the…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, College Students, Individual Differences, Males
Peer reviewedGlover, John A.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
Three experiments with 120 college undergraduates and 62 seventh graders examined the utility of inserting a delay between reading an advance organizer and its related text. A moderate delay may enhance the effects of advance organizers. Results support an "accessibility" hypothesis and do not support a "rehearsal" hypothesis.…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Education Majors, Elementary Education, Encoding (Psychology)
Peer reviewedBergh, Anne-Marie; And Others – South African Journal of Higher Education, 1996
A study using 10 University of South Africa education graduates investigated how students experience two very different textbooks. Results suggest that the students' personal circumstances dictated their approaches to instructional texts. Other factors included English language proficiency; textual features (advance organizers, visual aids,…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, College Graduates, Distance Education, Education Majors
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the relationship of text organization to readability and reading ability; how advance organizers, outlining, and other preparatory procedures affect learning and…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations
Armbruster, Bonnie B.; And Others – 1986
A study investigated the effect of instruction about conventional expository text structure on fifth-graders' ability to learn from similarly structured social studies material. Subjects, 82 fifth graders from four heterogeneous classrooms in two schools in a small midwestern city, were assigned to either a structure training group which received…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 30 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) effects of graphic organizers, textual organization, and reading comprehension level on recall of expository prose; (2) the effect of metaphor on the reading…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Annotated Bibliographies, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: effects of methods of study, cognitive style, pre-information on the construction of written material, gender of generic pronouns, and study questions interspersed…
Descriptors: Adults, Advance Organizers, Annotated Bibliographies, Art Expression
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: semantic constructivity in children's comprehension; text-based inferences generated by children in reading written discourse; a review of reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Adults, Advance Organizers, Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading
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This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with the following topics: advance organizers; a comparison of the effectiveness and efficiency of behavioral objectives and sample tests; anaphoric nominal substitution and its relationship to reading…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Advance Organizers, Annotated Bibliographies, Behavioral Objectives
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 11 titles deal with the following topics: the effects of a funded program on the attainment of reading and mathematics performance objectives by kindergarten children; a comparison of the reading success of Title I fourth grade…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Annotated Bibliographies, Black Students, Doctoral Dissertations
