Effect of prior domain knowledge and headings on processing of informative text

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 485-498

  Surber, John R ^a   Schroeder, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allocation of attention; Expository text; Headings; Learning from text; Prior knowledge; Structural cues in text

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249713193     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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