Abstract

Recent investigations of Ausubel's advance organizer technique, a prereading instuctional intervention which serves to link new material with existing prior knowledge, have examined the interaction between learner characteristics and the characteristics of an advance organizer. However, this research fails to make eplicit the relationship between the advance organizer and the existing prior knowledge of the learner. The current study investigated the effects on comprehension of verbal and pictorial advance organizers with 8-year-old children having high or low prior knowledge relative to a science topic. In Experiment 1 a verbal advance organizer assisted the comprehension of only the children in the strong prior knowledge group. In Experiment 2 the addition of a pictorial component to the verbal advance organizer facilitated the comprehension of children in the weak prior knowledge group.

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