Human Processing of Knowledge from Texts: Acquisition, Integration, and Reasoning.
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| Title: | Human Processing of Knowledge from Texts: Acquisition, Integration, and Reasoning. |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Thorndyke, Perry W., Hayes-Roth, Barbara, Rand Corp., Santa Monica, CA. |
| Availability: | The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA 90406 ($7.00) |
| Peer Reviewed: | N |
| Page Count: | 166 |
| Publication Date: | 1979 |
| Sponsoring Agency: | Advanced Research Projects Agency (DOD), Washington, DC. |
| Contract Number: | DAHC15-73-C-0181 |
| Report Number: | R-2256-ARPA |
| Document Type: | Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Directed Reading Activity, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Reading Comprehension, Reading Materials, Reading Research, Research Projects, Retention (Psychology) |
| Geographic Terms: | U.S.; California |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8330-0149-8 |
| Abstract: | This report documents a series of studies on how undergraduate students learn from and reason with textual information. The studies described were undertaken to produce models that could serve as the basis for designing computer systems capable of structuring and presenting text material in optimal formats. Divided into sections, the report presents five sets of studies evaluating particular processing models and optimization techniques to improve reading comprehension and retention, including the use of schemata in the acquisition and transfer of knowledge, knowledge acquisition from newspaper stories, the integration of knowledge from text, configural effects in memory, and text annotation as a technique for facilitating knowledge integration. The last section of the report discusses ten conclusions, among which are that presenting new information in well-learned structural organizations can facilitate learning that information, that eliminating redundancy and irrelevant commentary from newspaper stories facilitates assimilation and retention of important facts, and that annotating texts with references to related facts that have occurred in previous texts facilitates general inferential reasoning from the texts. (AEA) |
| Journal Code: | RIEJUN1980 |
| Entry Date: | 1980 |
| Accession Number: | ED181421 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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