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Endres, Tino; Kranzdorf, Lena; Schneider, Vivien; Renkl, Alexander – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2020
The type of a recall task may substantially influence the effects of learning by retrieval practice. In a within-subject design, 54 university students studied two expository texts, followed by retrieval practice with either short-answer tasks (targeted retrieval) or a free-recall task (holistic retrieval). Concerning the direct effects of…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Retention (Psychology), College Students, Testing
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Sinatra, Gale M.; Kardash, CarolAnne M.; Taasoobshirazi, Gita; Lombardi, Doug – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2012
This study examined the relationship among cognitive and motivational variables impacting college students' willingness to take mitigative action to reduce the impacts of human-induced climate change. One hundred and forty college students were asked to read a persuasive text about human-induced climate change and were pre- and post-tested on…
Descriptors: College Students, Persuasive Discourse, Attitude Change, Climate