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SEQUENCING OF TEXT MATERIAL IN RELATION TO INFORMATION PROCESSING STRATEGIES
Author(s) -
TILLEMA H.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1982.tb00823.x
Subject(s) - aptitude , psychology , relation (database) , test (biology) , variable (mathematics) , information processing , presentation (obstetrics) , sequence (biology) , cognitive psychology , natural language processing , developmental psychology , computer science , mathematics , data mining , medicine , paleontology , mathematical analysis , genetics , radiology , biology
S ummary .— Ninety‐five pupils participated in an experiment in which two sequence procedures for presentation of text material were varied in relation to two information‐processing strategies used by the pupils. The first variable, text sequence, tested the hypothesis that interrelation of known and unknown information is necessary for the acquisition of new information. Data analysis showed that the ‘web’ condition resulted in better performance on various dependent variables than the ‘linear’ condition on both the post‐test and the retention test. For the second variable, information processing strategy, it was hypothesised that it would influence the acquisition of newly learned concepts. Only a main effect on performance tests was found. There was no interaction effect of the aptitude and treatment variable.