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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Educational Psychology
  • Learning Sciences

Background:

  • The text generation effect posits that actively generating information enhances learning compared to passive reading.
  • Extant literature suggests contextual factors influence the magnitude of the text generation effect.
  • Replicability of this effect with expository texts requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test the replicability of the text generation effect for learning with expository texts.
  • To systematically investigate the influence of contextual factors on the text generation effect.
  • To determine the practical applicability of text generation in educational settings.

Main Methods:

  • Seven experiments were conducted comparing reading (control) to sentence unscrambling (generation) of expository texts.
  • Contextual factors systematically varied included intentionality of learning, time constraints, retention interval, and study design.
  • Learning outcomes were assessed using multiple measures.

Main Results:

  • No consistent text generation effect was observed across the seven experiments.
  • A learning disadvantage was found for text generation compared to reading in some conditions.
  • A significant generation effect was observed in only one experiment for a single learning measure.

Conclusions:

  • The text generation effect is not reliably observed with expository texts under the tested conditions.
  • Optimal conditions for a generation effect appear to be intentional learning, unrestricted time, and immediate testing.
  • The findings indicate limited practical applications for text generation in educational contexts given its inconsistent efficacy.