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Peer reviewedDeGroff, Linda-Jo Caple – Elementary School Journal, 1987
Examines the influence of prior knowledge on the quality of fourth-grade students' responses to three process-approach tasks: writing, conferencing, and revising. Results suggest that prior knowledge is a significant factor in all phases of process-approach lessons. (NH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Prior Learning
DeGroff, Linda-Jo Caple – 1986
A study examined the influence of prior knowledge on the quality of responses in three process-approach tasks: writing, conferencing, and revising. Subjects, 20 high-knowledge and 20 low-knowledge fourth grade students, wrote stories about a baseball game. Propositional text bases of first and second drafts were analyzed according to six…
Descriptors: Baseball, Content Analysis, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
