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McCormick, Claire; Lesgold, Alan M. – 1974
This paper reports on one study in a research program trying to extend existing findings on elaborative mediation in paired-associate learning into the domain of prose learning. Ten third graders and 22 fourth graders from an inner-city Catholic school served as subjects. A paraphrase recall pretest was administered which involved reading a…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 4, Learning, Memory
Wicker, Frank W.; Evertson, Carolyn M. – 1973
Paired-associate (PA) learning of children was investigated as a function of age, stimulus-type, and mode of elaboration. Sixty nursery school children (average age 53 months) and 60 first graders (average age 84 months) were selected as subjects. Each child studied nine pairs of objects, photographs, or drawings for two trials of PA learning by…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Grade 1, Learning