Eliciting Self-Explanations Improves Understanding

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Summary

It is shown that self-explanation can also be facilitative when it is explicitly promoted, in the context of learning declarative knowledge from an expository text, and three processing characteristics of self-explaining are considered as reasons for the gains in deeper understanding.

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1994-07-01
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Psychology, Cognitive psychology

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