Role of adjunct questions and reading ability levels on rote and conceptual learning from prose

✍ Scribed by Sally B. Bing

• Book ID: 104646099
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 640 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-4277
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00154883

✦ Synopsis

This research evaluated the effect of question type (rote, conceptual) and adjunct question response mode (multiple choice, short answer) on rote and conceptual learning outcomes of high and low ability readers. Subjects were 98 freshman students of a small, historically black, undergraduate institution. Students studied a passage containing either rote-or conceptual-level adjunct questions or no questions. They were then administered a rote and a conceptual post-test over the presented concepts. A 2 X 2 X 2 factorial design was used. The results indicated, contrary to most other research, that rote adjunct questions were more helpful to readers than conceptual adjunct questions on both rote and conceptual post-tests. As expected, high reading ability students performed better than low reading ability students within treatments. There were no significant aptitudetreatment interactions.