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Igelsrud, Karen – 1991
A practicum used a new learning tool to enhance long-term retention of new vocabulary. Sixteen seventh-graders in Language Arts, who had a long-term retention mean score of approximately 40% of newly learned vocabulary, increased their long-term retention of new vocabulary by 25% (a new mean of 65% of new vocabulary). Additional objectives…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Junior High Schools, Language Arts, Long Term Memory