Interest and Learning from Text.

Garner, Ruth; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ433858

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1991

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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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