Prasad, Rajiv
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Audience: Undergraduate. -- Dissertation: Thesis (B. A.). -- Algoma University, 1991. -- Submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements for PSYC 4105. -- Includes figures and tables. -- Contents: Literature review / Thesis.
Twenty years of advance organizer research has yielded mixed opinions regarding their effectiveness as a pre-instructional strategy. These differences can be attributed to the diversity of the aims of these studies combined with a lack of standardized procedures governing their formation, administration and evaluation. This experiment tested the effects of memory span on advance organizer effectiveness, following guidelines of successful studies. 102 subjects were randomly exposed to one of four experimental groups containing 0,3,7 or 14 concepts. Scores on a delayed multiple choice content test did not differ significantly. Group means suggested that limiting advance organizers to 7 + or -2 essential concepts might improve their effectiveness.
