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Learning via Mnemonic Pictures: Analysis of the Presidential Process
Joel R. Levin
Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development Vol. 31, No. 3 (1983) pp. 161–73
Students learned the numerical order of 14 U.S. Presidents through either a complex mnemonic strategy or their own technique. Performance pattern differences were detected between the groups, chiefly serial position profiles produced by those using...
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A Combined Pictorial Mnemonic Strategy for Ordered Information
Joel R. Levin
Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development Vol. 29, No. 4 (1981) pp. 219–25
Investigates the potential of a keyword method extension to determine if it can be effectively combined with other mnemonic strategies that are designed to facilitate coding of numerically ordered information. Twenty references are listed. (MER)
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Pictures, Imagery, and Children's Recall of Central versus Peripheral Sentence Information
Joel R. Levin
Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development Vol. 27, No. 2 (1979) pp. 89–95
In this study of second and fifth graders, story relevant pictures and subject generated images were presented to determine the kind of story information likely to be enhanced by real and imagined pictures. Results indicate that central and...
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Keywords and Vocabulary Acquisition: Some Words of Caution about Johnson, Adams, and Bruning (1985)
Michael Pressley; Joel R. Levin
Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development Vol. 33, No. 4 (1985) pp. 277–84
The mnemonic keyword study of Johnson, Adams, and Bruning (1985) on effectiveness of the keyword method for second-language vocabulary acquisition is critiqued. Of particular concern are literature currency vis-a-vis the authors' stated rationale...
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Degree of Mnemonic Support and Students' Acquisition of Science Facts
Charles R. Morrison; Joel R. Levin
Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development Vol. 35, No. 2 (1987) pp. 67–74
Describes study of eighth grade students conducted to test the effectiveness of mnemonic techniques to recall attributes of minerals. Results indicate that mnemonic instruction, when accompanied by experimentor-provided keywords and mnemonic...
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Children's Learning of All the News That's Fit to Picture
Joel R. Levin; Jill K. Berry
Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development Vol. 28, No. 3 (1980) pp. 177–85
The two experiments described investigated the effects of pictures on the recall of prose passages from newspapers by children. Both single pictures expressing the main idea and groups of pictures illustrating each sentence helped fourth graders...
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On Pictures in Prose
Joel R. Levin; Alan M. Lesgold
Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development Vol. 26, No. 3 (1978) pp. 233–43
Consistent learning gains are associated with the use of pictures when experiments adhere to five ground rules: (1) prose passages are presented orally; (2) the subjects are children; (3) the passages are fictional narratives; (4) the pictures...
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Pictures and Children's Story Recall: Some Questions of Durability
Chao-Ying Peng; Joel R. Levin
Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development Vol. 27, No. 1 (1979) pp. 39–44
It was found that story relevant pictures help children recall stories, and the second graders in the study retained over a three day period. Although they had more to forget, children aided by pictures did not forget more than those in a control...
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Argumentative Reasoning in Online Discussion
Constance A. Steinkuehler; Sharon J. Derry; Joel R. Levin; Jong-Baeg Kim
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2000 (April 2000)
This study compared the effects of three forms of online instruction on memory, belief change, and argumentation skill. Reading of a pro/con text was followed by: (1) online discussion in pairs compared to reading of the same text followed by two...