Generation of Descriptive Text Headings.
The effectiveness of having students generate their own headings for scientific text is assessed. Results reveal that generating headings enhance performance on a number of recall measures compared to either author-provided headings or no headings. Educational implications are discussed.
| Published in: | Contemporary Educational Psychology Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 103 - 109 |
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Academic Press Inc.
Apr1983
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