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The Efficacy Of Level Of Adjunct Questions Over Time By Discourse Type, Ying Zhang
The Efficacy Of Level Of Adjunct Questions Over Time By Discourse Type, Ying Zhang
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The potential differential effects of discourse type on the study of adjunct question efficacy were examined. The interaction among discourse type, question level, and time of test was investigated as reflected by readers' intentional and incidental learning outcomes. Eighty-four undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory psychology course were randomly assigned to four experimental conditions: (a) texts with low-order questions, (b) texts with high-order questions, (c) texts with both low- and high-order questions, and (d) texts with no questions. Each subject read both the narrative text and the expository text. The dependent measure was composed of five subscales of the criterion …