Ausubel - 1960 - use of advance organizers in the learning and retention of meaningful verbal material.

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fullTitle: "The use of advance organizers in the learning and retention of meaningful verbal material."
authors: ["David P. Ausubel"]

The authors gave an experimental group an 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.