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ERIC Number: EJ304955
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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Effects of an Organizer on Memory for Prose.
Derry, Sharon J.
Journal of Educational Psychology, v76 n1 p98-107 Feb 1984
In this study on the interactive effects of advance organizers and reasoning skills, 112 undergraduates read a literature text preceded by either a comparative advance organizer or a placebo introduction. Results suggest that instructional organizers produce neither serious loss nor substantial benefits for many purposes of communication. (BS)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Advance Organizers, Encoding (Psychology), Higher Education, Learning Processes, Memory, Prose, Schemata (Cognition)
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Assimilation Theory
Note: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (65th, Los Angeles, CA, April 13-17, 1981) and included in the author's doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Illinois, 1982.