Adjunct questions

Kintsch, W. (1994). Text comprehension, memory, and learning. American Psychologist, 49(4), 294–303

Advance organizer

# Ausubel, D. P. (1960). The use of advance organizers in the learning and retention of meaningful verbal material. Journal of Educational Psychology, 51(5), 267–272

The authors gave an experimental group an [[zAkgXnwHwuvrTjaFM49S5P1:::Textbook problem sets aren’t great reading comprehension checks]]. A control group got additional background information relevant to the test passage. Students then studied a test passage and took an exam. Students in the experimental group performed better by roughly a half SD.








Ausubel, D. P. (1960). The use of advance organizers in the learning and retention of meaningful verbal material. Journal of Educational Psychology, 51(5), 267–272