Using Student-Constructed Questions to Encourage Active Reading.

Questioning as a learning activity Researchers dealing with learning from text offer two opposing views of retention. On the one hand, discourse analysts and some schema theorists suggest that retention is automatic with comprehension and can be predicted by analyzing the text structure (Kintsch and van Dijk, 1978; Rumelhart, 1977). Others suggest that retention is influenced by interacting factors. Brown, Campione, and Day's (1981) Interactive Model of Learning from Text includes four factors: the nature