Study Activities That Foster Generative Learning: Notetaking, Graphic Organizer, and Questioning

Fourth graders were asked to read a text and either to fill in a compare-and-contrast graphic organizer, answer a set of structured questions, take notes, or simply read the text. Both the graphic organizer and questioning groups outperformed the read-only group on a comprehension test ( d = 1.24 and 1.22, respectively) and a memory test ( d = 0.54 and 0.53, respectively). No significant differences were found between the notetaking and...