The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of three types of review procedures: re-reading, recall exercise, and recall exercise plus re-reading, on the delayed retention of a meaningful prose text that had been read once. / A sample of 909 fourth and fifth grade students from the Fairfax County Public School System, in the state of Virginia, participated in the study. / A 1 x 4 posttest-only control group design was used. The prose text used in the study was a revised version of a section from a children's text entitled: Paws, Hoofs and Flippers, by Olive Earle (1954). The measurement instrument used was a short-answer essay test. The test was judged to have content validity, and the reliability was .70 according to the Spearman-Brown formula. / The study was conducted in three sessions. In the first session of the study, all of the students read the same text. During the second session, students worked with individual booklets that contained different review procedures: (1) a re-reading of the text, or (2) a recall exercise based on the text, or (3) a combination of the recall exercise plus a re-reading, or (4) a placebo activity. / During the third session, one week after the initial session, all of the students answered an identical cued-recall test. / An analysis of covariance was used to test the null hypothesis of no difference among the treatment groups at an alpha of .05. The students' reading levels were used as a covariate. The results showed a significant difference among the treatment groups (p .05). / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-04, Section: A, page: 1020. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75285 |
| Contributors | ADAMS, CLEMENTINA RODRIGUEZ., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 243 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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