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ERIC Number: EJ384775
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Effects of Strategy Training on the Identification of the Main Idea of Expository Passages.
Stevens, Robert J.
Journal of Educational Psychology, v80 n1 p21-26 Mar 1988
The effectiveness of methods teaching how to identify the main idea of expository paragraphs was tested using 47 remedial reading 6th through 11th graders. Tested were: strategy training; classification training; combined training; and practice only. Strategy training improved performance, while classification training only improved performance for same-content material. (SLD)
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Reading Skills, Remedial Reading, Secondary School Students, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Expository Text; Main Idea; Strategy Training
Note: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Chicago, IL, March 31-April 4, 1985).