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| Behavioral Objectives | 1 |
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| Journal of Reading Behavior | 1 |
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Peer reviewedBritton, Bruce K.; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1985
Investigates some of the mechanisms by which instructional objectives affect learning. Finds that with specific objectives, the secondary-task reaction times while reading objective-relevant material were longer, reading times were longer, and recall was greater than with either a general objective or with no objectives. (MM)
Descriptors: Attention, Behavioral Objectives, Content Area Reading, Higher Education
