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Learner Expectations Induced by Adjunct Questions and the Retrieval of Intentional and Incidental Information

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Sagaria, Sabato D.; Di Vesta, Francis J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978

One hundred-fifty subjects studied a passage with questions interspersed at different locations. Total level of acquisition was highest in treatments involving postquestions and no questions. The results were attributed to the influence of adjunct questions on learner expectations that affect the selective processing of information. (Author/JAC)

Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cues, Higher Education, Incidental Learning

Additive Effects of Pre- and Post-Adjunct Questions in Prose Text.

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Sagaria, Sabato D.; Di Vesta, Francis J. – 1978

The relationship between placement of adjunct questions in instructional material and incidental and intentional learning was investigated. A total of 150 undergraduate students assigned to five experimental groups studied ten paragraphs with questions interspersed at different locations in the text. Performance on incidental items was…

Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Attention, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading