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ERIC Number: EJ275577
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1983-Jan
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Pictorial Organization in Prose Learning.
Dean, Raymond S.; Enemoh, Peter Amaechi C.
Contemporary Educational Psychology, v8 n1 p20-27 Jan 1983
Two groups of undergraduates were forced to process a maplike organizer before or after reading a difficult prose passage concerning the formation of a meander. Subjects with little prior knowledge, provided with the organizer, recalled at a level similar to subjects with a good deal of background knowledge. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Educational Psychology, Geology, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Maps, Pictorial Stimuli, Prose, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Recall (Psychology)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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