Investigates whether using an advance organizer along with metacognitive strategies helps high school students learn content material. Finds that using metacognitive strategies leads to significantly higher reading scores than the use of advance organizers alone or merely reading an introductory passage. Finds that the benefits increase as the…

Presents 26 annotations from the ERIC database on using study guides, advance organizers, and other concept development strategies. Offers journal articles and material appropriate for secondary grades and college students. (SR)

Describes the use of a biology guidebook which contains a course outline, syllabus, reading list, handouts, and sample tests all bound together in booklet form for better organization and teacher effectiveness. (RT)

Utilizes the information processing model of human memory to provide teachers with suggestions for improving the teaching-learning process. Briefly explains and specifies applications of major theoretical concepts: attention, active learning, meaningfulness, organization, advanced organizers, memory aids, overlearning, automatically, and…

Reviews previous research on advance organizers (introductory text adjuncts intended to provide readers of expository text with a meaningful context within which to process unfamiliar, or difficult, new information). Shows that they inspire significant comprehension increases among readers whose prior knowledge "subsumers" are inadequate to…

Investigates whether advance organizers facilitate the acquisition of subordinate information from text. Examines the influences of reader's background knowledge, advance organizers, relative importance of idea units, and idea units' position within a text structure on the recall of textual information. (SR)

Preservice teachers in an introductory microcomputer class received an advance organizer to help them learn about microcomputer components. The advance organizer facilitated learning by providing an opportunity for them to build schema. (SM)

Thirty-nine high school students with mild disabilities and poor reading comprehension were trained to use either student-generated or expert-generated cognitive organizers to improve literal and inferential reading comprehension. Following training, both groups exceeded the reading comprehension performance of a control group, and students using…

A model for incorporating feature films into a course for training group facilitators is presented. Using cognitive-learning theories, the authors describe how films may be used as an advanced organizer, as the basis for student learning assessment, or as examples of specific theory in action. Specific examples are provided. (Author/EMK)

The development of social problem-solving skills in preschool children (namely, cooperative play, sharing, taking turns, understanding another person's feelings, helping, and the verbal resolution of conflict) was assessed following instruction under three conditions. A total of 35 children, of whom 18 attended a formally structured preschool…

A total of 150 undergraduate students randomly assigned to five experimental groups studied ten paragraphs with questions interspersed at different locations in the text. Performance on incidental items was significantly lower (p < .05) in the question before (QB) than in the question after (QA), question before and after (QBA), and the…

This paper presents a developmental study of the effects of item rehearsal on children's short term memory. Two experiments are discussed. The first, involving second and sixth grade children, concerned the relationship between item retrieval ability and rehearsal strategies in item recall. The design of the experiment involved varying the visual…

The effects of an advance organizer, a preview of text structure, and two different arrangements of reading material on prose learning and on delayed retention were investigated. The textual material was preceded by an advance organizer, a preview of structure, or a neutral control passage. The narrative text, which concerned the economic…

The degree to which good and poor high school readers comprehend prose was studied in relation to their ability to (1) use passage organization to facilitate comprehension; (2) use task instructions to facilitate comprehension; and (3) answer verbatim and paraphrase items used to measure comprehension. Eleventh grade students were given the…

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of temporal positioning of teacher-conducted reviews on the retention of meaningful material presented in the classroom at the community college level. The specific objective was to determine the most effective time to give teacher-summary reviews on in-class presented material as an aid to…