Critique A Comparison Of Study

Article Critique: A Comparison of study strategies for passages The goal of this study is to test the effectiveness of generating questions as a study strategy for passages. There are many study strategies used by students and surprisingly, self-testing is not highly used. This is partly because students do not predict that self-testing will improve their performance and is also because students do not often have the resources, similar to the self-test questions experimenters use, available to them. Weinstein, McDermott and Reodiger do not only suggest that self-testing is more effective than rereading a passage, but that generating questions for self-testing is more effective than using provided questions. This article discusses three experiments.

Louis. The mean age of participants was 21.4 years; there were 23 women and 6 men, and 12 Caucasians, 19 Asian or Pacific Islanders, and 7 African Americans. Experimenters produced four paragraphs of approximately 575 words on the subjects of Salvador Dali, the KGB, Venice, and the Taj Mahal. Participants were given a passage to read and then given a random study strategy, reread the passage, answer questions about the passage or generate questions about the passage. Participants did this for three passages and the fourth passage was used for a practice. They also predicted how well they would remember the information from the passages. After reading each passage and completing the study phase, the participants played Tetris for fifteen minutes before being tested. The tests included eight questions for each passage, two questions for each paragraph, and a total of 28 questions. The participants were tested and the results

The participants of this experiment were twenty-four people taken from the same subject pool. The mean age was 21.0 years, 11 women and 13 men, and there were 12 Caucasians, 8 Asians or Pacific Islander, 1 Hispanic and 1 other. In experiment three the time gap between the study phase and the test phase was the same as the first experiment, but the testing was through free recall instead of short answer. The thirty-three participants were from the same pool, the mean age was 21.0, there were 21 women and 12 men, and there were 16 Caucasians, 12 Asian or Pacific Islanders, 3 African Americans, and 2 others. The results presented from all three studies were based on prediction and performance. In all of the experiments participants predicted better recall for the passages for which they generated questions. In performance there was no difference between answering questions and generating questions. Generating questions works just as well, but takes twice as