Interest and Learning From Text

American Educational Research Journal - Tập 28 Số 3 - Trang 643-659 - 1991
Ruth Garner1, Patricia A. Alexander2, Mark G. Gillingham1, Jonna M. Kulikowich3, Rachel Brown4
1washington state university
2Texas A&M University;
3University of Connecticut
4University of Maryland

Tóm tắt

Dewey (1913) suggested some time ago that trying to find out what is of interest to students is an important part of schooling; on the other hand, “making things interesting” is artificial and often unsuccessful. Two studies investigating the placement of interesting detail in a text about a physicist and his scientific work are reported here. In both studies, undergraduate students were asked to read the science text under a variety of conditions and then to recall important information on a set of measures. Results indicated that attention of students was diverted from important generalizations in text to interesting, sometimes irrelevant, detail. Placement of the detail did not affect recall, but overall interestingness of the text did, particularly if students knew little about the topic of the text. Implications for instruction are discussed.

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American Educational Research Journal

Tập 28 Số 3

643-659

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