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Recalling structured text: Does what goes in determine what comes out?
Author(s) -
Hartley James
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
british journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.79
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-8535
pISSN - 0007-1013
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8535.1993.tb00675.x
Subject(s) - chunking (psychology) , recall , affect (linguistics) , psychology , presentation (obstetrics) , computer science , cognitive psychology , communication , medicine , radiology
Eighty‐eight 12–13 year old children studied a short passage for five minutes which was printed in either a‘chunked’or a‘traditional’format. The children were then asked to write out the passage from memory. It was found that‘chunking’did not significantly affect recall. However, the format of the presentation affected the format of the recall. Forty‐four out of 44 children in the chunked condition recalled their text in a chunked format, and virtually all of the 44 children with the traditional text wrote out their passages in the traditional way.