Textual Organization, Advance Organizers and the Retention of Prose Material
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- 1 June 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Reading Behavior
- Vol. 7 (2) , 173-180
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10862967509547133
Abstract
In order to study the interaction of passage structure and advance organizers a prose passage containing information about 6 obscure American Presidents was presented to 144 college students either in 1 long paragraph or 6 separate paragraphs. Half of the subjects in each condition were given an advance organizer describing the passage organization and half were not. Contrary to expectation, subjects given a passage with neither paragraph cues nor an advance organizer recalled better than subjects given paragraph cues but no advance organizer. Subjects given advance organizers were intermediate regardless of paragraph structure. Results were interpreted from an activity or levels of processing position.Keywords
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