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ERIC Number: EJ280310
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1983-Apr
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Prepassage Questions: The Influence of Structural Importance.
Wilhite, Stephen C.
Journal of Educational Psychology, v75 n2 p234-44 Apr 1983
The effects of prepassage questions quizzing information of different structural importance on college students' memory for expository prose passages were compared. Results indicated that questions which direct the subjects' attention to material at the top of the organizational structure facilitate the effective encoding of the central organizational idea within the passage segment. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Context Clues, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Memory, Prose, Recall (Psychology), Verbal Ability
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Adjunct Questions; Encoding; Hierarchial Learning; Structural Learning