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ERIC Number: EJ433858
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
Interest and Learning from Text.
Garner, Ruth; And Others
American Educational Research Journal, v28 n3 p643-59 Fall 1991
Two studies investigated the placement of interesting details in a text by asking 276 undergraduate students what they could recall after reading a text about a physicist and his scientific work. Placement of detail did not affect recall, but overall interestingness of the text did affect recall. (SLD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Processes, Physics, Reading Comprehension, Recall (Psychology), Science Materials, Student Interests, Text Structure, Undergraduate Students
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Text Processing (Reading)