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Rater's Predictions of the Recallability of Expository Prose as Related to Actual Recall.
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Johnson, Ronald E. – 1972
A study was conducted to discover whether college students could predict which linguistic subunits of expository prose would be recalled. Comparison was made between the predicted subunits and the actual subunits recalled. Subjects were presented with 650 or 810 word prose passages and informed that they would be tested on their recall of passages…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Learning Processes, Memory